Cork

What do we mean by cork?

The lightweight elastic outer bark of the cork oak, used especially for bottle closures, insulation, floats, and crafts. noun

Something made of cork, especially a bottle stopper. noun

A bottle stopper made of other material, such as plastic. noun

A small float used on a fishing line or net to buoy up the line or net or to indicate when a fish bites. noun

A nonliving, water-resistant protective tissue that is formed on the outside of the cork cambium in the woody stems and roots of many seed plants. noun

To stop or seal with or as if with a cork. transitive verb

To restrain or check; hold back. transitive verb

To blacken with burnt cork. transitive verb

A bristle; in the plural, bristles; beard. noun

A corruption of calk. noun

The name given in the Highlands of Scotland to the lichen Lecanora tartarea, yielding a crimson or purple dye. See cudbear. noun

A species of oak, Quercus Suber, growing in the south of Europe (especially in Spain and Portugal) and in the north of Africa, having a thick, rough bark, for the sake of which it is often planted. It grows to the height of from 20 to 40 feet, and yields bark every 6 to 10 years for 150 years. noun

‐2. The outer bark of this oak, which is very light and elastic, and is used for many purposes, especially for stoppers for bottles and casks, for artificial legs, for inner soles of shoes, for floats of nets, etc. noun

In botany, a constituent of the bark of most phænogamous plants, especially of dicotyledons. noun

Something made of cork. noun

A stopper or bung for a bottle, cask, or other vessel, cut out of cork; also, by extension, a stopper made of some other substance: as, a rubber cork. A small float of cork used by anglers to buoy up their fishing-lines or to indicate when a fish bites or nibbles; by extension, any such float, even when not made of cork. noun

Made of or with cork; consisting wholly or chiefly of cork.

Plural A game played with corks colored differently on the sides and so trimmed that they may fall either way, the players betting on whether the majority thrown will fall red or black. Sometimes called props. noun

In France and Belgium, a game, a mixture of quoits and bowls. noun

The bark of the cork oak, which is very light and porous and used for making bottle stoppers, flotation devices, and insulation material.

A bottle stopper made from this or any other material.

An angling float, also traditionally made of oak cork.

The cork oak, Quercus suber.

The dead protective tissue between the bark and cambium in woody plants, with suberin deposits making it impervious to gasses and water.

Words that are spelled similarly to cork:
cork.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word cork:
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Words that rhyme with cork:
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Adjectives that are often used to describe cork:
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Nouns that are often described by the adjective cork:
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Consonant match to cork:
karch.

Words that sound like cork:
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