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Cork

proper noun

  1. city in County Cork, Munster Province, Ireland
  2. family name
  3. unincorporated community in Metcalfe County, Kentucky, United States
  4. human settlement in Georgia, United States
  5. human settlement in Arizona, United States
  6. settlement in Lanivet, Cornwall, United Kingdom
  7. mine in Matabeleland South Province, Zimbabwe
  8. band
L1472875 on Wikidata ↗

verb

  1. to plug or seal; to stuff with cork
L30851 on Wikidata ↗

noun

  1. bung for closing a wine bottle
  2. tissue
  3. material derived from the cork oak
L4534 on Wikidata ↗

Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /kɔɹk/ / /kɔːk/

adj

Etymology: From the traversal path resembling that of a corkscrew.

  1. Having the property of a head over heels rotation.

name

Etymology: From Irish Corcaigh (“bog, marsh, swamp”).

  1. The principal city of County Cork, Ireland.
  2. A county in the Republic of Ireland (County Cork).

noun

Etymology: From the traversal path resembling that of a corkscrew.

  1. An aerialist maneuver involving a rotation where the rider goes heels over head, with the board overhead.

verb

Etymology: From the traversal path resembling that of a corkscrew.

  1. To perform such a maneuver.