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corked, ppl. a.|kɔːkt|
[f. cork v.1 and n.1]
†1. Furnished with a cork sole or heel. Obs. (Cf. chopine.)
1519W. Horman Vulg. 113 She wereth corked slippers to make hir tal and feet. 1589Puttenham Eng. Poesie i. xv. (Arb.) 49 Those high corked shoes or pantofles, which now they call in Spaine and Italy Shoppini. 1615T. Adams Spir. Navigator 52 Cork'd at the heeles.
2. Stopped or confined with a cork; also fig. (Also with up.)
1836–9Dickens Sk. Boz (1877) 198 Giving full vent to a hitherto corked-up giggle.
3. Blackened with burnt cork.
1836T. Hook G. Gurney II. 205 With their..painted cheeks, corked whiskers, and chalked necks. 1836–9Dickens Sk. Boz (1850) 73/2 Partially corked eyebrows.
4. Of wine: Tasting of the cork; spoiled by an unsound cork into the substance of which the wine penetrates.
1830Marryat King's Own xxxiv, This wine is corked. 1852R. S. Surtees Sponge's Sp. Tour xxv. 148 This [wine] fortunately was less corked than the first.
Hence corkedness nonce-wd., state or quality of being corked (sense 4).
1888Standard 10 Sept. 5/2 [They] would scorn to offer a bottle with even a suspicion of corkedness. |