Definitions for Cork

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Cork cork

Spelling: [kawrk]

IPA: /kɔrk/

Cork is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 24 anagrams from letters in Cork (ckor).

Definitions for Cork

noun

1. the outer bark of an oak, Quercus suber, of Mediterranean countries, used for making stoppers for bottles, floats, etc.
2. Also called cork oak. the tree itself.
3. something made of cork.
4. a piece of cork, rubber, or the like used as a stopper, as for a bottle.
5. Angling. a small float to buoy up a fishing line or to indicate that a fish is biting.
6. Also called phellem, suber. Botany. an outer tissue of bark produced by and exterior to the phellogen.
7. a county in Munster province, in S Republic of Ireland. 2881 sq. mi. (7460 sq. km).
8. a seaport in and the county seat of Cork, in the S part.

Idioms

1. blow / pop one's cork, Informal. to lose one's temper; release one's emotional or physical tension.

verb (used with object)

1. to provide or fit with cork or a cork.
2. to stop with or as if with a cork (often followed by up).
3. to blacken with burnt cork.

Origin of Cork

1275-1325; Middle English cork(e) Arabic qurq Latin quercus oak

Examples for Cork

They sing harvest songs and pull cork after cork after cork.

When they are cold, tie up the jar; covering the cork with leather.

Of course the Californians were wide awake for the drawing of the cork.

It is said that a Moët et Chandon cork pops somewhere on earth every second.

Put the mixture into a stone jug, or a demijohn, and cork it tightly.

He was working on five of them; and one of them, the double cork 1080, he said he would name “the Bob.”

Then pour off the thin liquid from the top, and cork the jug tightly.

Pour it through a funnel into half-pint bottles, and cork them well.

Their nanny is from cork, Ireland, and she is amazing and hilarious.

The floors were softened by cork tiles, the walls by Philippine mahogany paneling.