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Shive :: Shive (n.) A thin, flat cork used for stopping a wide-mouthed bottle; also, a thin wooden bung for casks..

Corkscrew :: Corkscrew (v. t.) To press forward in a winding way; as, to corkscrew one's way through a crowd..

Bob :: Bob (n.) A small piece of cork or light wood attached to a fishing line to show when a fish is biting; a float.

Stoppled :: Stopple (v. t.) That which stops or closes the mouth of a vessel; a stopper; as, a glass stopple; a cork stopple..

Worm :: Worm (n.) A spiral instrument or screw, often like a double corkscrew, used for drawing balls from firearms..

Suberite :: Suberin (n.) A material found in the cell walls of cork. It is a modification of lignin.

Float :: Float (v. i.) The cork or quill used in angling, to support the bait line, and indicate the bite of a fish..

Bottlescrew :: Bottlescrew (n.) A corkscrew.

Phelloplastics :: Phelloplastics (n.) Art of modeling in cork.

Corkscrew :: Corkscrew (n.) An instrument with a screw or a steel spiral for drawing corks from bottles.

Cutinization :: Cutinization (n.) The conversion of cell walls into a material which repels water, as in cork..

Porkwood :: Porkwood (n.) The coarse-grained brownish yellow wood of a small tree (Pisonia obtusata) of Florida and the West Indies. Also called pigeon wood, beefwood, and corkwood..

Cork :: Cork (n.) A mass of tabular cells formed in any kind of bark, in greater or less abundance..

Suberin :: Suberic (a.) Of or pertaining to cork; specifically, designating an acid, C6H12.(CO2H)2, homologous with oxalic acid, and obtained from cork and certain fatty oils, as a white crystalline substance..

Shuttlecock :: Shuttlecock (n.) A cork stuck with feathers, which is to be struck by a battledoor in play; also, the play itself..

Cloop :: Cloop (n.) The sound made when a cork is forcibly drawn from a bottle.

Agaric :: Agaric (n.) An old name for several species of Polyporus, corky fungi growing on decaying wood..

Cutose :: Cutose (n.) A variety of cellulose, occuring as a fine transparent membrane covering the aerial organs of plants, and forming an essential ingredient of cork; by oxidation it passes to suberic acid..

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

Wire :: Wire (v. t.) To bind with wire; to attach with wires; to apply wire to; as, to wire corks in bottling liquors..

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