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Definition of Corked
1. Adjective. (of wine) tainted in flavor by a cork containing excess tannin. "A corked port"
Definition of Corked
1. a. having acquired an unpleasant taste from the cork; as, a bottle of wine is corked.
Definition of Corked
1. Verb. (past of ''cork'') ¹
2. Adjective. Of a container, especially a bottle, closed with a cork. ¹
3. Adjective. Of (a bottle of) wine, tainted by mould/mold in the cork. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Corked
1. cork [v] - See also: cork
Lexicographical Neighbors of Corked
Literary usage of Corked
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1893)
"A wide-mouthed bottle was corked with a rubber cork, which was pierced with two
holes. In these holes two glass tubes were fitted, so that one (A) reached ..."
2. The Improved Housewife, Or, Book of Receipts: With Engravings for Marketing by A. L. Webster (1853)
"Cement for corked Bottles. Melt with four ounces of sealing-wax, four of rosin
and two of heps' wax Stir it w ith a (allow candle when it froths, ..."
3. Trial of Dr. Pritchard by Edward William Pritchard, William Roughead (1906)
"A bottle, corked and having a label attached, with the following or similar ...
A small phial, corked, containing a dark-coloured liquid, and having two ..."
4. Camera (1907)
"Roth chemicals should be kept in tightly-corked bottles in a dark place. Used in
making red ( Bartolozzi) prints, in blue-print coating and for bromide ..."
5. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1900)
"Keep in a glass bottle tightly corked and shake frequently while using, as the
lampblack tends to separate. The zinc, cut in thu desired forms, ..."
6. Annual of Scientific Discovery: Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art by David Ames Wells, George Bliss, Samuel Kneeland, John Trowbridge, Wm Ripley Nichols, Charles R Cross (1859)
"Tin1 tube is now to 1« corked, well .-haken, and It'll awhile at rest, until the
nine to take place. The Hour rises to the surface of the chloroform, ..."
7. Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and by Francis Peyre Porcher (1869)
"After standing an hour, they should be corked with velvet corks. The lower end
of the cork is held for an instant in hot water, and it is then instantly ..."
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