Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Corked"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.
2. To furnish or fit with cork; to raise on cork.
Tread on corked stilts a prisoner's pace. --Bp.
Hall.
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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Corked \Corked\ (k?rkt), a.
having acquired an unpleasant taste from the cork; as, a
bottle of wine is corked.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
corked
adj 1: sealed with a cork
2: (of wine) tainted in flavor by a cork containing excess
tannin; "a corked port" [syn: {corky}]
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