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Definition of Cork

Cork

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

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

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

To stop with a cork, as a bottle.

To furnish or fit with cork; to raise on cork.

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Cork Quotations

Some weasel took the cork out of my lunch.
W. C. Fields

What contemptible scoundrel has stolen the cork to my lunch?
W. Clement Stone

I pray on the principle that wine knocks the cork out of a bottle. There is an inward fermentation, and there must be a vent.
Henry Ward Beecher

Here, in Cork district, you have in combination all the dangers which war can inflict.
Eamon de Valera

There was no professional theater in Cork, but still I did a lot of performing.
Fiona Shaw

For a while we had trouble trying to get the sound of a champagne cork exploding out of the bottle. I solved the problem by sticking my finger in my mouth and popping it out.
Lawrence Welk

There are times in show business when you work so much you think you will pop your cork, and then suddenly you can't find any work.
Martha Reeves

The destroyer Cork, like the useful hero for whom it is named, will be game to the last.
Josephus Daniels

Without the Empire we should be tossed like a cork in the cross current of world politics. It is at once our sword and our shield.
William Morris Hughes

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Cork Translations

cork in Afrikaans is kurk
cork in Dutch is kurk
cork in Finnish is korkki
cork in German is Kork
cork in Italian is tappare, sughero
cork in Norwegian is kork, korke
cork in Spanish is tapon, corcho
cork in Swedish is kork, korka igen

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