CORK

n. v.

5 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

The outer layer of the bark of the cork tree (Quercus Suber), of which stoppers for bottles and casks are made. See Cutose.

2.
n.

A stopper for a bottle or cask, cut out of cork.

3.
n.

A mass of tabular cells formed in any kind of bark, in greater or less abundance.

4.
v.

To stop with a cork, as a bottle.

5.
v.

To furnish or fit with cork; to raise on cork. Tread on corked stilts a prisoner's pace. Bp. Hall.