Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One whose trade is the making of corks.
- noun A tool for cutting cork; specifically, a hard brass tube sharpened at one end for cutting corks from sheet-cork.
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Examples
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The series of letters published as "Time and Tide by Weare and Tyne" were addressed [13] to Thomas Dixon, a working cork-cutter of Sunderland, whose portrait by Professor Legros is familiar to visitors at the South
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Her deceased better-half had been an eminent cork-cutter, in which capacity he had amassed a decent fortune.
Sketches by Boz, illustrative of everyday life and every-day people Charles Dickens 1841
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-- "O," replied the boaster, "I am but a cork-cutter: but then it is in a _very_ large way!"
The Jest Book The Choicest Anecdotes and Sayings Mark Lemon 1839
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The series of letters published as “Time and Tide by Weare and Tyne "were addressed [13] to Thomas Dixon, a working cork-cutter of Sunderland, whose portrait by Professor Legros is familiar to visitors at the South Kensington Museum.
The Life of John Ruskin Collingwood, W G 1911
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