Definition of Recork

1. Verb. To replace a cork in a bottle ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Recork

1. cork [v -ED, -ING, -S] - See also: cork

Lexicographical Neighbors of Recork

recording equipment
recording label
recording machine
recording studio
recording system
recordings
recordist
recordists
recordkeeper
recordkeepers
recordkeeping
recordlike
records
recordset
recordsets
recork (current term)
recorked
recorking
recorks
recorrect
recorrected
recorrecting
recorrection
recorrections
recorrects
recouch
recouched
recouching
recouer
recount

Literary usage of Recork

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Report on Economic Zoology by Frederick Vincent Theobald (1904)
"... or whether it is essential to recork the wine ; (4) whether infection spreads through a cellar by the beetle laying eggs in the various corks, ..."

2. Mass: The Art of John Harris by Ron Tiner, John Harris (1869)
"Each bottle should be carefully taken up, keeping it inverted; untie the fastening to the cork, take it out suddenly, and instantly recork it. ..."

3. House Documents, Otherwise Publ. as Executive Documents: 13th Congress, 2d by United States Congress. House (1869)
"Each bottle should bo carefully taken up, keeping it inverted ; untie the fastening to the cork, take it out suddenly, and instantly recork it. ..."

4. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy (1915)
"The master of the house took advantage of this pause to recork a bottle of wine, which he handed to the servant, observing: " Good wine is not to be got ..."

5. The Popular Science Monthly (1877)
"... distance of many hundred feet sooner than you could open and recork the bottle, or, in some instances, about one-third of a mile in one second of time. ..."

6. The Cornhill Magazine by George Smith (1873)
"... flowing over all the floor, to play at beggar-my-neighbour, the beggar to rise and recork the barrel ; which, indeed, by the time the game was finished, ..."

7. Report of the Secretary of Agriculture by United States Dept. of Agriculture (1869)
"... alter the sediment has been removed ; then recork with new corks, driven in with a mallet, and wired or tied, and placed in racks on their sides, ..."

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