Definitions for corks

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corks cork

Spelling: [kawrk]

IPA: /kɔrk/

Corks is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 51 anagrams from letters in corks (ckors).

Definitions for corks

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 corks

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

Examples for corks

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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