The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cork \Cork\ (k[^o]rk), n. [Cf. G., Dan., & Sw. kork, D. kurk; all fr. Sp. corcho, fr. L. cortex, corticis, bark, rind. Cf. Cortex.]
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.
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A mass of tabular cells formed in any kind of bark, in greater or less abundance.
Note: Cork is sometimes used wrongly for calk, calker; calkin, a sharp piece of iron on the shoe of a horse or ox.
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.
WordNet
n. deciduous tree of China and Manchuria having a turpentine aroma and handsome compound leaves turning yellow in autumn and deeply fissured corky bark [syn: Phellodendron amurense]
prickly Australian coral tree having soft spongy wood [syn: Erythrina vespertilio]
Wikipedia
Cork tree may refer to:
- Cork oak, Quercus suber, the tree from which most cork is harvested
- Chinese cork oak, Quercus variabilis, a tree from which cork is occasionally harvested
- Cork-tree, a species of Phellodendron
- Indian cork tree, Millingtonia hortensis
Usage examples of "cork tree".
I found a spring, ate a small amount of the food in my Survival Unit, and prepared to spend the night in a great cork tree, even as we have sheltered ourselves in this cypress today .
So I did not approach the gate of the farm but went instead into a dense forest adjacent to it I found a spring, ate a small amount of the food in my Survival Unit, and prepared to spend the night in a great cork tree, even as we have sheltered ourselves in this cypress today….
So I did not approach the gate of the farm but went instead into a dense forest adjacent to it I found a spring, ate a small amount of the food in my Survival Unit, and prepared to spend the night in a great cork tree, even as we have sheltered ourselves in this cypress today.
Sancho likewise held his peace and ate acorns, and paid repeated visits to the second wine-skin, which they had hung up on a cork tree to keep the wine cool.
When some of us goatherds learned this we went in search of him for about two days through the most remote portion of this sierra, at the end of which we found him lodged in the hollow of a large thick cork tree.
Most commonly my dwelling is the hollow of a cork tree large enough to shelter this miserable body.
Sancho at last fell asleep at the foot of a cork tree, while Don Quixote dozed at that of a sturdy oak.
We had gone rather less than a quarter of a league when the sound of a little bell fell on our ears, a clear proof that there were flocks hard by, and looking about carefully to see if any were within view, we observed a young shepherd tranquilly and unsuspiciously trimming a stick with his knife at the foot of a cork tree.