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stopple
English
Etymology
From Middle English stopple, stoppel, stoppell, partly from Old French estopail, estopaille, and partly equivalent to stop +? -le.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?st?p?l/
Noun
stopple (plural stopples)
- A plug; a stopper.
Verb
stopple (third-person singular simple present stopples, present participle stoppling, simple past and past participle stoppled)
- (transitive) To plug; to stop up.
- 1605, William Shakespeare, King Lear V.iii
- Shut your mouth, dame, / Or with this paper shall I stopple it.
- 1605, William Shakespeare, King Lear V.iii
Anagrams
- loppets, peltops, topples
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cork
English
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /k??k/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /k??k/
- Rhymes: -??(?)k
Etymology 1
From Middle English cork (“oak bark, cork”), from Middle Dutch curc (“cork (material or object)”), either from Spanish corcho (“cork (material or object)”) (also corcha or corche) or from Old Spanish alcorque (“cork sole”). Doublet of cortex.
Noun
cork (countable and uncountable, plural corks)
- (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.
Translations
Verb
cork (third-person singular simple present corks, present participle corking, simple past and past participle corked)
- (transitive) To seal or stop up, especially with a cork stopper.
- 2014, Paul Salopek, Blessed. Cursed. Claimed., National Geographic (December 2014)[1]
- 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, Paul Salopek, Blessed. Cursed. Claimed., National Geographic (December 2014)[1]
- (transitive) To blacken (as) with a burnt cork
- To leave the cork in a bottle after attempting to uncork it.
- To fill with cork, as the center of a baseball bat.
- (transitive, Australia) To injure through a blow; to induce a haematoma.
- ‘Must have corked my leg when I got up,’ he thought.
- 2010, Andrew Stojanovski, Dog Ear Cafe, large print 16pt, page 191,
- Much to my relief he had only corked his leg when he had jumped.
- (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.
Translations
Etymology 2
From the traversal path resembling that of a corkscrew.
Noun
cork (plural corks)
- (snowboarding, skiing, skateboarding) An aerialist maneuver involving a rotation where the rider goes heels over head, with the board overhead.
Derived terms
- double cork (two such maneuvers in a single jump)
- triple cork (three such maneuvers in a single jump)
- quad cork (four such maneuvers in a single jump)
Translations
Verb
cork (third-person singular simple present corks, present participle corking, simple past and past participle corked)
- (snowboarding, skiing, skateboarding) To perform such a maneuver.
Adjective
cork (not comparable)
- (snowboarding, skiing, skateboarding) Having the property of a head over heels rotation.
Derived terms
Descendants
- ? French: cork
References
Anagrams
- Kroc, Rock, rock
French
Etymology
English cork (“corkscrew”)
Noun
cork m (plural corks)
- (snowboarding, skiing, skateboarding) cork (An aerialist maneuver involving a rotation where the rider goes heels over head, with the board overhead.)
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