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| bob2 |
a buoyant object, such as a cork, used in fishing; bobber. [1/5 definitions] |
| bung |
a cork or other stopper used to close the hole in a barrel or cask. [2/3 definitions] |
| cork |
to fit or seal (a bottle) with a cork. [2/6 definitions] |
| corky |
of or resembling cork, as in texture or buoyancy. [2 definitions] |
| float |
a piece of cork or a hollow plastic or glass object used to support a net or fishing line. [1/14 definitions] |
| linoleum |
a durable floor covering made by pressing linseed oil, powdered cork, and rosin onto a canvas or burlap backing. |
| phellem |
a layer of dead cells that forms in the bark of woody plants; cork. |
| phellogen |
in woody plants, a tissue layer that lies just beneath the outer bark and generates the outer bark cells; cork cambium. |
| plug |
an object made of cork, rubber, wood, or the like used to block an opening. [1/10 definitions] |
| popgun |
a toy gun from which a pellet or cork is shot by compressed air with a loud pop. |
| recork |
combined form of cork. |
| shuttlecock |
a small roundish piece of cork or rubber with a crown of feathers or plastic vanes, used in certain net games such as badminton; shuttle. |
| thumbtack |
a large-headed tack that can be pressed into place with a thumb, as into wood or cork. [1/2 definitions] |
| uncork |
to remove the cork from (a wine bottle or the like). [1/2 definitions] |
| wahoo1 |
a cork elm of the southeastern United States. [1/2 definitions] |
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