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Definition of Recorked
1. recork [v] - See also: recork
Lexicographical Neighbors of Recorked
Literary usage of Recorked
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. American Druggist (1889)
"About 2 per cent of sugar having been put into the bottles, they are recorked.
Fermentation sets in, the products being alcohol and the agent of ..."
2. Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Charles Knight (1843)
"When recorked this is got rid of by the process of dégorgement. The bottle is
inclined, the mouth downwards, till all the sediment is lodged in the neck ..."
3. The Penny Cyclopædia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain), George Long (1843)
"Such also are most liable to the aggressions of insects, and must frequently be
recorked. All these inconveniences, as well as the serious loss of wine ..."
4. The never never land: a ride in North Queensland by Archibald William Stirling (1884)
"What, the claret recorked ? " I asked. " Yes, every bottle of wine in the place,"
was the answer; and at the expense of being rude, I could not help ..."
5. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1879)
"... dried at 100° C. was weighed, then a portion shaken out into a platinum boat
and the tube recorked, allowed to assume a constant weight, and reweighed. ..."
6. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1829)
"... should be recorked and put away, to be drunk by him who should be the last of
their number; that they should never admit a new member ; that, ..."
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