corking
adjective
[ ˈkɔːkɪŋ ]
• very good; excellent.
• "cars in corking condition"
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’.
