Usually means: Bark material, buoyant, sealing stoppers.
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General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. Cork, cork: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. Cork, cork: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Cork, cork: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. cork: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Cork, cork: Vocabulary.com
  6. Cork, cork: Wordnik
  7. cork: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Cork: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  9. Cork, cork: Wiktionary
  10. cork: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. cork: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. cork: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. cork: Dictionary.com
  14. cork: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. cork: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Cork (Ireland), Cork (band), Cork (city), Cork (disambiguation), Cork (material), Cork (plug), Cork: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Cork: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. cork: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. cork: Rhymezone
  20. cork: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. cork: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. CORK: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  23. cork: Free Dictionary
  24. cork: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. Cork: Dictionary/thesaurus
  26. cork: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Cork (disambiguation), cork: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Cork (disambiguation), cork: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. CORK: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  3. cork: Idioms

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  2. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  3. CORK: A Dictionary of Quaternary Acronyms and Abbreviations

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. cork, cork, cork, cork, cork, cork, cork: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Cork: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Sandahl, Middle English Sea Terms (No longer online)

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noun:  (botany, uncountable) The dead protective tissue between the bark and cambium in woody plants, with suberin deposits making it impervious to gasses and water.
noun:  The phellem of the cork oak, used for making bottle stoppers, flotation devices, and insulation material.
noun:  A bottle stopper made from this or any other material.
noun:  An angling float, also traditionally made of oak cork.
noun:  The cork oak, Quercus suber.
verb:  (transitive) To seal or stop up, especially with a cork stopper.
verb:  (transitive) To blacken (as) with a burnt cork.
verb:  To leave the cork in a bottle after attempting to uncork it.
verb:  To fill with cork.
verb:  (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.
verb:  (transitive, Australia) To injure through a blow; to induce a haematoma.
verb:  (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.
verb:  (transitive) To block (a street) illegally, to allow a protest or other activity to take place without traffic.
noun:  (snowboarding, skiing, skateboarding) An aerialist maneuver involving a rotation where the rider goes heels over head, with the board overhead.
verb:  (snowboarding, skiing, skateboarding) To perform such a maneuver.
adjective:  (snowboarding, skiing, skateboarding) Having the property of a head over heels rotation.
noun:  The principal city of County Cork, Ireland.
noun:  A county in the Republic of Ireland (County Cork).

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