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Corker   /kˈɔrkər/   Listen
Corker

noun
1.
(dated slang) a remarkable or excellent thing or person.
2.
A machine that is used to put corks in bottles.






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"Corker" Quotes from Famous Books



... game. Association had flourished exceedingly; so much so that the Head made it a law that, on each Thursday in the Michaelmas term, the old game, and nothing but the old game, should be played, and woe betide any unauthorized "cutters" thereof. This was almost the only rule that Corker never swerved a hair's breadth from, and bitter were the regrets when Shannon had sent word to Bourne, our captain, that he could bring down a really clinking team to put our eleven through their paces, if the match were played on Thursday. Saturday, ...
— Acton's Feud - A Public School Story • Frederick Swainson



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