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Corked a. having acquired an unpleasant taste from the cork; as, a bottle of wine is corked.
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Cork, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Corked p. pr. & vb. n. Corking.]
1. To stop with a cork, as a bottle.
2. To furnish or fit with cork; to raise on cork.
Tread on corked stilts a prisoner's pace. --Bp. Hall.
Note: ☞ To cork is sometimes used erroneously for to calk, to furnish the shoe of a horse or ox with sharp points, and also in the meaning of cutting with a calk.
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corked
adj 1: sealed with a cork
2: (of wine) tainted in flavor by a cork containing excess
tannin; "a corked port" [syn: corky]