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 Cork n.
 1. The outer layer of the bark of the cork tree (Quercus Suber), of which stoppers for bottles and casks are made. See Cutose.
 2. A stopper for a bottle or cask, cut out of cork.
 3. A mass of tabular cells formed in any kind of bark, in greater or less abundance.
 Note: ☞ Cork is sometimes used wrongly for calk, calker; calkin, a sharp piece of iron on the shoe of a horse or ox.
 Cork jackets, a jacket having thin pieces of cork inclosed within canvas, and used to aid in swimming.
 Cork tree Bot., the species of oak (Quercus Suber of Southern Europe) whose bark furnishes the cork of commerce.

 cork tree
      n 1: deciduous tree of China and Manchuria having a turpentine
           aroma and handsome compound leaves turning yellow in
           autumn and deeply fissured corky bark [syn: Phellodendron
           amurense]
      2: prickly Australian coral tree having soft spongy wood [syn:
         Erythrina vespertilio]