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corked

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As an adjective, corked means of a container, especially a bottle, closed with a cork.

Meanings of corked

4 meanings

verb

Simple past tense and past participle of cork

adjective

  1. Of a container, especially a bottle, closed with a cork.

  2. Of (a bottle of) wine, tainted by mould/mold in the cork.

    “Waiter, this wine is corked. Could you bring us another bottle?”

  3. Blackened by burnt cork.

    “the corked faces of the outlaws”

  4. (of wine) tainted in flavor by a cork containing excess tannin

    “a corked port”

    Similar: corky

Meanings from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0).

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