English Dictionary

cork

/kɔɹk/

verb

(transitive) To seal or stop up, especially with a cork stopper. / (transitive) To blacken (as) with a burnt cork. / To leave the cork in a bottle after attempting to uncork it. / To fill with cork.

He used a cork to seal the bottle.

意味（1）

(transitive) To seal or stop up, especially with a cork stopper.

Arms draped on shoulders, kick-stepping in circles, they swing bottles of wine. Purpled thumbs cork the bottles. The wine leaps and jumps behind green glass.

意味（2）

(transitive) To blacken (as) with a burnt cork.

意味（3）

To leave the cork in a bottle after attempting to uncork it.

意味（4）

To fill with cork.

意味（5）

(transitive, baseball) To tamper with (a bat) by drilling out part of the head and filling the cavity with cork or similar light, compressible material.

He corked his bat, which was discovered when it broke, causing a controversy.

意味（6）

(transitive, Australia) To injure through a blow; to induce a haematoma.

The vicious tackle corked his leg.

意味（7）

(fishing) To position one's drift net just outside of another person's net, thereby intercepting and catching all the fish that would have gone into that person's net.

Kate remembered then, the family fish camp a mile or so up Amartuq Creek, the very creek across the mouth of which Yuri Andreev had tried to cork Joe Anahonak not half an hour before.