cork
noun
- 1
a small float usually made of cork; attached to a fishing line
- 2
a port city in southern Ireland
- 3
the plug in the mouth of a bottle (especially a wine bottle)
- 4
outer bark of the cork oak; used for stoppers for bottles etc.
- 5
(botany) outer tissue of bark; a protective layer of dead cells
verb
- 1
stuff with cork
The baseball player stuffed his bat with cork to make it lighter
- 2
close a bottle with a cork
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