cork
noun
[ kɔːk ]
• a buoyant light brown substance obtained from the outer layer of the bark of the cork oak.
• "vinyl-coated cork is practical as a floor covering"
• a bottle stopper made of cork or a similar material.
• "he pulled out the cork and commenced pouring the wine"
Similar:
stopper,
stop,
plug,
bung,
peg,
spigot,
spile,
seal,
cap,
top,
lid,
cover,
covering,
stopple,
cork
verb
• close or seal (a bottle) with a cork.
• "the bottles were tightly corked and wired"
• draw with burnt cork.
• "he had corked a moustache on his upper lip"
• illicitly hollow out (a baseball bat) and fill it with cork to make it lighter.
• "the balls are doctored and the bats are corked"
• suffer a painful bruising injury to (a limb) as a result of a heavy blow, especially while participating in a contact sport.
• "he corked his thigh and limped off"
Origin:
Middle English: from Dutch and Low German kork, from Spanish alcorque ‘cork-soled sandal’, from Arabic al- ‘the’ and (probably) Spanish Arabic qurq, qorq, based on Latin quercus ‘oak, cork oak’.
