corknoun
uk/kɔːk/us/kɔːrk/[ U ] the light, soft bark (= outer covering) of a Mediterranean tree
[ C ] a short, cylinder-shaped piece of cork, plastic, or rubber that is put into the top of a bottle, especially a wine bottle, to close it:
I can't get the cork out of the bottle - can you try?
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Types of wood
- balsa wood
- bark
- close-grained
- ebony
- firewood
- hickory
- jelutong
- lumber
- matchwood
- MDF
- mulga
- oak
- oaken
- pine
- rosewood
- three-ply
- wood
- wood pulp
- wooden
- yew
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Lids, covers and stoppers
corkverb [ T ]
uk/kɔːk/us/kɔːrk/to close a bottle by putting a cork in it:
I'll cork the bottle and we can drink the rest later.
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Closing and blocking
- barricade
- batten
- batten down the hatches idiom
- block sth off
- block sth up
- dam
- dam sth up
- dark
- ensconce
- ensconced
- gum
- gum sth up
- jam
- seal
- shut (sth) off
- shut sb/sth out
- shutter
- silt (sth) up
- snap
- the darkest hour is just before the dawn idiom
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Phrasal verb(s)
cork sth up