Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
cork , 2.
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Examples
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After I walked around it for awhile I noticed a little info plaque which told me it had been made from cork-bark and bits of wood - just like a creche (and thus, by conjecture, made by local model-makers in the creche tradition).
Archive 2008-08-01 Heather McDougal 2008
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After I walked around it for awhile I noticed a little info plaque which told me it had been made from cork-bark and bits of wood - just like a creche (and thus, by conjecture, made by local model-makers in the creche tradition).
Getting Small: Toys and Miniatures Heather McDougal 2008
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In May the pots are made of cork-bark and planted with corn, as already described.
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In May the pots are made of cork-bark and planted with corn, as already described.
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The ordinary rubber corks and those made of cork-bark should not be used because of their friability, and the possible aspiration of a fragment into the bronchus, where rubber particles form very irritant foreign bodies.
Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery Chevalier Jackson 1911
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In May the pots are made of cork-bark and planted with corn, as already described.
The Golden Bough James George Frazer 1897
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One and a half miles N.E. by N. from the cave is a valley of open spinifex, breaking through the ridges in a West and Southerly direction, on which are clumps of cork-bark trees; these would incline one to think that water cannot be far below the surface in this spot.
Spinifex and Sand David Wynford Carnegie 1885
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Towards the end of their course the well-defined channels, with banks sometimes ten feet high, disappear, giving place to a grassy avenue through the scrub, lightly timbered with cork-bark, and other small trees.
Spinifex and Sand David Wynford Carnegie 1885
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In May the pots are made of cork-bark and planted with corn, as already described.
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What, artistically, has been achieved here is extraordinary - even if some of the crusted, scabbed-up knees are paint-soaked lumps of cork-bark; even if the tears are glass, the fingernails ox-horn, and the teeth stained and carved ivory.
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