'Corked' definitions:
Definition of 'corked'
(from WordNet)
adjective
(of wine) tainted in flavor by a cork containing excess tannin; "a corked port" [syn: corked, corky]
Definition of 'Corked'
From: GCIDE
- Corked \Corked\ (k?rkt), a. having acquired an unpleasant taste from the cork; as, a bottle of wine is corked. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Corked'
From: GCIDE
- Cork \Cork\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Corked (k[^o]rkt); p. pr. & vb. n. Corking.]
- 1. To stop with a cork, as a bottle. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To furnish or fit with cork; to raise on cork. [1913 Webster]
- Tread on corked stilts a prisoner's pace. --Bp. Hall. [1913 Webster]
- Note: To cork is sometimes used erroneously for to calk, to furnish the shoe of a horse or ox with sharp points, and also in the meaning of cutting with a calk. [1913 Webster]