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   Cork (kôrk), n. [Cf. G., Dan., & Sw. kork, D.  kurk; all fr. Sp. corcho, fr. L. cortex, corticis, bark, rind. Cf. Cortex.]
   1. The outer layer of the bark of the cork tree (Quercus Suber), of which stoppers for bottles and casks are made. See Cutose.
   
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   2. A stopper for a bottle or cask, cut out of cork.
   
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   3. A mass of tabular cells formed in any kind of bark, in greater or less abundance.
   
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   ☞ Cork is sometimes used wrongly for calk, calker; calkin, a sharp piece of iron on the shoe of a horse or ox.
   
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   Cork jackets, a jacket having thin pieces of cork inclosed within canvas, and used to aid in swimming. -- Cork tree (Bot.), the species of oak (Quercus Suber of Southern Europe) whose bark furnishes the cork of commerce.
   
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   Cork, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Corked (kôrkt); p. pr. & vb. n. Corking.]
   1. To stop with a cork, as a bottle.
   
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   2. To furnish or fit with cork; to raise on cork.
   
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   Tread on corked stilts a prisoner's pace. Bp. Hall.
   
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   ☞ To cork is sometimes used erroneously for to calk, to furnish the shoe of a horse or ox with sharp points, and also in the meaning of cutting with a calk.
   
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