(botany,uncountable) The dead protective tissue between thebark andcambium in woody plants, withsuberin deposits making it impervious to gasses and water.
2014,Paul Salopek,Blessed. Cursed. Claimed., National Geographic (December 2014)[1]
Arms draped on shoulders, kick-stepping in circles, they swing bottles of wine. Purpled thumbscork the bottles. The wine leaps and jumps behind green glass.
(transitive,baseball) To tamper with (a bat) by drilling out part of the head and filling the cavity with cork or similar light, compressible material.
Hecorked his bat, which was discovered when it broke, causing a controversy.
2012, Kevin Neary, Leigh A. Tobin,Major League Dads:
Apparently I used to have some good power even though I was little, but the team we were playing against thought I hadcorked the bat. I kid you not! They paid $200 to have the bat popped off to prove they were right.
2006, Joseph N. Santamaria,The Education of Dr Joe[2], page60:
Injuries, which seemed to be of an inconsequential nature, were often sustained, such as a sprained ankle, a dislocated phalanx, a twisted foot, acorked leg and so on.
2007, Shaun A. Saunders,Navigating in the New World[3], page202:
As he moved away again, William winced at an ache in his thigh. ‘Must havecorked my leg when I got up,’ he thought.
“I′m okay. I must havecorked my thigh when Bruce fell onto me. I′ll be fine.”
2010, Andrew Stojanovski,Dog Ear Cafe, large print 16pt,page 191,
Much to my relief he had onlycorked his leg when he had jumped.
2010,Ben Cousins,Ben Cousins: My Life Story[5], page108:
Icorked my thigh late in the game, which we won, and came off.
(fishing) To position one'sdrift net just outside of another person's net, therebyintercepting andcatching all thefish that would have gone into that person's net.
1998, Dana Stabenow,Killing Grounds,→ISBN, page 8:
Kate remembered then, the family fish camp a mile or so up Amartuq Creek, the very creek across the mouth of which Yuri Andreev had tried tocork Joe Anahonak not half an hour before.
2003, George Lowe,Fisherman: The Strife and Times of Ronald K. Peterson of Ballard,→ISBN:
But its soon apparent that there are more boats than fish—at least for the moment. We all drift quietly, keeping an eye out for other boats and other nets.Corking another guy's net is a screaming—bastard offense.
2008, Bert Bender,Catching the Ebb: Drift-fishing for a Life in Cook Inlet,→ISBN, page249:
You're pissed if someone sets too close to you and especially if he sets his net right along yours, "corking" you and intercepting the fish that seem headed to your own net. I was close to this guy's outside net, but definitely notcorking him.
