Crossword clues for corked
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cork \Cork\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Corked (k[^o]rkt); p. pr. & vb. n. Corking.]
To stop with a cork, as a bottle.
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To furnish or fit with cork; to raise on cork.
Tread on corked stilts a prisoner's pace.
--Bp. Hall.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.
Corked \Corked\ (k?rkt), a. having acquired an unpleasant taste from the cork; as, a bottle of wine is corked.
Wiktionary
1 Of a container, especially a bottle, closed with a cork. 2 Of (a bottle of) wine, tainted by mould/mold in the cork. v
(en-past of: cork)
WordNet
adj. sealed with a cork
(of wine) tainted in flavor by a cork containing excess tannin; "a corked port" [syn: corky]
Usage examples of "corked".
I corked the chardonnay and put it in the fridge, but the damage was done.
Casting an eye into the street, where a rushing brown stream carried litter, road dust, choleraridden sewage, and tons of captive nanotech toward the storm drains, he slipped off his leather shoes and exchanged them for a pair of handtooled cowboy boots, made from hides of gaudy reptiles and avians, the pores of which had been corked with mites that would keep his feet dry even if he chose to wade through the gutters.
Robert corked the whiskey bottle and gathered the mugs with an offended air.
The corked eyebrows and mustaches were smeared over the perspiring, flushed, and merry faces.
Her former lovers had been Frenchmen, more skilled in carrying strong places by assault than in eluding the artfulness of a girl who corked herself up.
But these words meant that every one of the flasks which had been only corked, not sealed, was alive with little animals!
Absently, Nylan corked the water bottle, bent and set it on the dusty ground that had been a meadow, and pushed his senses to the south, well behindhand beyond the white and red blotches that represented the slow-advancing Cyadoran forces.
Yes, corked whiskers on her dear face, - and she was a dear soul to you, Caudle, and you ought to be ashamed of yourself to see her ill-used.
As soon as the shower had passed over we drew out our canoes, corked, repaired, and loaded them I still feel myself somewhat unwell with the dysentery, but determined to set out in the morning up the south fork or Missouri, leaving Captain Clark to complete the deposit and follow me by water with the party.
Have you been plunging at hazard, or have you discovered that the wine is corked?
It was corked and wired tightly shut and it was painted white with red harlequins dancing on its glass surface, all in varying poses of devilish gaiety, all grinning madly.
He corked the ink bottle and straightened and stretched, trying to loosen muscles in his back that he hadn't even realized were stiff.
In time, the young artist set aside the stylus and corked her ink bottle.
Across the honey-colored wooden floors, Anna could see Jo Castle bent over the counter labeling corked test tubes and storing them upright in a wooden rack.
MacArthur is coming down from the north, and the Nipponese Air Force troops are coming up from the south, so the isthmus between Manila Bay and Laguna de Bay is corked at both ends by great military forces waging total war.