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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as cork, 2.

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Examples

  • 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

  • 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

  • In May the pots are made of cork-bark and planted with corn, as already described.

    Chapter 33. The Gardens of Adonis 1922

  • In May the pots are made of cork-bark and planted with corn, as already described.

    The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion 1922

  • 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

  • In May the pots are made of cork-bark and planted with corn, as already described.

    The Golden Bough James George Frazer 1897

  • 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

  • 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

  • In May the pots are made of cork-bark and planted with corn, as already described.

    The Golden Bough : a study of magic and religion 1583

  • 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.

    The Guardian World News 2009

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