cork
English
/kɔɹk/, /kɔːk/
noun
Definitions
- (uncountable) The bark of the cork oak, which is very light and porous and used for making bottle stoppers, flotation devices, and insulation material.
- A bottle stopper made from this or any other material.
- An angling float, also traditionally made of oak cork.
- The cork oak, Quercus suber.
- (botany) The dead protective tissue between the bark and cambium in woody plants, with suberin deposits making it impervious to gasses and water.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English cork (oak bark, cork) derived from Middle Dutch curc (cork) derived from Spanish, Castilian corcho (cork) derived from Old Spanish alcorque (cork sole).
Origin
Old Spanish
alcorque
Gloss
cork sole
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- ball English
- corkable English
- corkage English
- corkball English
- corker English
- corkiness English
- corkless English
- corklike English
- corkline English
- corkscrew English
- corkscrewlike English
- corkscrewy English
- corkwing English
- corkwood English
- corky English
- line English
- recork English
- recorker English
- screw English
- uncork English
- uncorker English
- wing English
- wood English
- cortex Latin
- kurk Dutch, Flemish
- kurkentrekker Dutch, Flemish
- cork French
- acorcharse Spanish, Castilian
- corcho Spanish, Castilian
- sacacorchos Spanish, Castilian
- コルクスクリュー Japanese
- cork Middle English
- corc Irish
- corcscriú Irish
- kork Danish
- korko Esperanto
- korkokverko Esperanto
- काग Hindi
- corc Welsh
- corcyn Welsh
- curc Middle Dutch
- korko Ido
- alcorque Old Spanish