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Definition of Corkers
1. corker [n] - See also: corker
Lexicographical Neighbors of Corkers
Literary usage of Corkers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Journal of Science, and Annals of Astronomy, Biology, Geology by James Samuelson, William Crookes (1874)
"in the clay, marl, or gravel, are found the " corkers," or roots of the oak ...
Deal corkers. d. Oak corkers on gravel. Brown turf is always more or less ..."
2. The Journal of Science by Calcutta Asiatic Society (1874)
"in the clay, marl, or gravel, are found the " corkers," or roots of the oak ...
Deal corkers, d. Oak corkers on gravel. Brown turf is always more or less ..."
3. Cobbett's Political Registerby William Cobbett by William Cobbett (1804)
"... from whose gilded footmen they loam that their masters were, but л few years
ago, butchers, bakers, bottle-corkers, or old-cloaths-men, and tint, ..."
4. Chronicles of the Town & Church of Ulverston by Charles Wareing Endell Bardsley (1885)
"t The mention of the corkers reminds us of the entry : " 1557. Nov. lo. ...
The corkers occupied an official position from the first. ..."
5. The Geological Record (1875)
"Above the " corkers" or roots of the oak comes a variable thickness of peat, and
above that the remains of a pine forest, with the " corkers " in horizontal ..."
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