CORKED

corked, corky

(adjective) (of wine) tainted in flavor by a cork containing excess tannin; “a corked port”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Verb

corked

simple past tense and past participle of cork

Adjective

corked (comparative more corked, superlative most corked)

Of a container, especially a bottle, closed with a cork.

Of (a bottle of) wine, tainted by mould/mold in the cork.

Blackened by burnt cork.

Anagrams

• Docker, docker, ockerd, redock, rocked

Source: Wiktionary

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Corked (krkt), a.

Definition: having acquired an unpleasant taste from the cork; as, a bottle of wine is corked.

CORK

Cork (krk), n. Etym: [Cf. G., Dan., & Sw. kork, D. kurk; all fr. Sp. corcho, fr. L. cortex, corticis, bark, rind. Cf. Cortex.]

1. The outer layer of the bark of the cork tree (Quercus Suber), of which stoppers for bottles and casks are made. See Cutose.

2. A stopper for a bottle or cask, cut out of cork.

3. 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.

Cork, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Corked (krkt); p. pr. & vb. n. Corking.]

1. To stop with a cork, as a bottle.

2. 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.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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