(kôrk) noun
1. A tough, elastic, light, and porous outer bark of an evergreen tree (Quercus suber), the cork oak, indigenous to southern Europe: it improves in quality with the age of the tree, and has many uses in industry and the arts.
2. A piece of this bark used as a bottle stopper.
3. Any stopper of other material: a rubber cork.
4. Bot. A protective tissue that forms in the stems beneath the epidermis of dicotyledons and replaces it.
—v.t.
1. To stop with a cork, as a bottle.
2. To restrain or confine; check.
3. U.S. To blacken with burnt cork.
—to cork up U.S. Colloq. To silence suddenly. [<OSp. alcorque a cork slipper <Arabic,? <L quercus oak]

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See CALK: erroneous usage.

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The largest county in Ireland, in southern Munster province; 2,880 square miles; county seat, Cork.