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/kˈɔrkɪŋ/ Listen

verb

Cork v. t. (past & past part. corked; pres. part. corking)

To stop with a cork, as a bottle.

To furnish or fit with cork; to raise on cork. "Tread on corked stilts a prisoner's pace." Note: 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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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... "The corking is examined at regular intervals. I remember the occurrence in my father's time. I have seen to ...

— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith

... Infection. I had meant to be brave; and Nurse and I had brushed up the green camblet Skirt, but the rent Mother had made in it would show; however, Nurse thought that, when I was up she could conceal it with a Corking-pin. Thus appointed, Ned led the Way, saying, the onlie Occasion on which a Gentleman needed not to excuse himself to a Lady for going first, was when they were to ride a Pillion. Noe more jesting when once a-Horseback; ...

— Mary Powell & Deborah's Diary • Anne Manning

... suppose you've always known how to do those corking fine embroideries that the priests are so stuck on? But how did you learn? And how does it come that you look like a dead swell? And where did you get those hands like a saint in a stained-glass window? And that hair? I'll bet you anything ...

— Through the Wall • Cleveland Moffett

... news. Terrible big tornado in the South. Hard luck, all right. But this, say, this is corking! Beginning of the end for those fellows! New York Assembly has passed some bills that ought to completely outlaw the socialists! And there's an elevator-runners' strike in New York and a lot of college boys are taking their places. That's the ...

— Babbitt • Sinclair Lewis

... Bud. "Rex Beach writes good stuff, and has some corking movies out, but maybe he was joking when he spoke of the Yaquis. Anyhow we know what they've done to our friends, and it's up to us ...

— The Boy Ranchers Among the Indians - or, Trailing the Yaquis • Willard F. Baker

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