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CORK

Volume 2 · 65 words · 1771 Edition

or Cork-tree, in botany. See Quercus.

Corking of a saddle, the pieces to which the bolsters are made fast; so called as having formerly been made of cork.

in geography, the capital of a county of the same name, in Ireland, and province of Munster, situated on the river Lee, about fifty miles south of Limerick: W. long. $8^\circ 25'$, and N. lat. $51^\circ 40'$.