cork

verb9

1. •
   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. — 2014
2. •
   To block (a street) illegally, to allow a protest or other activity to take place without traffic.

   • […] corking the streets is a challenge to capitalist ideologies, like skateboarding in parking lots and walkways […] — 2022
3. •
   To fill with cork.
4. •
   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.
5. •
   To blacken (as) with a burnt cork.
6. •
   (Australia) To injure through a blow; to induce a haematoma.

   • The vicious tackle corked his leg.
7. •
   To leave the cork in a bottle after attempting to uncork it.
8. •
   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. — 1998
9. •
   To perform such a maneuver.

noun6

1. •
   The dead protective tissue between the bark and cambium in woody plants, with suberin deposits making it impervious to gasses and water.
2. •
   A bottle stopper made from this or any other material.

   • Snobs feel it's hard to call it wine with a straight face when the cork is made of plastic.
3. •
   The phellem of the cork oak, used for making bottle stoppers, flotation devices, and insulation material.

   • I confess my confidence was shaken by these actions, though I knew well enough that his leg was no more cork than my own — 1908
4. •
   The cork oak, Quercus suber.
5. •
   An angling float, also traditionally made of oak cork.
6. •
   An aerialist maneuver involving a rotation where the rider goes heels over head, with the board overhead.

adjective1

1. •
   Having the property of a head over heels rotation.

noun2

1. •
   The principal city of County Cork, Ireland.
2. •
   A county in the Republic of Ireland (County Cork).