Stoppered with a cork. / (figuratively) Unable to speak; silenced.

(baseball) A bat that has been tampered with by drilling out part of the head of the bat and filling the resulting cavity with a light, compressible material (typically cork) in an attempt to improve the bat's performance (although performance is in fact degraded by corking the bat), rendering it illegal for use in play.

plural of corked bat

A kind of strawboard or cardboard in which ground cork is mixed with the paper pulp.

(US, slang) To fall asleep.

plural of cork-board

The best kind of cork bark, supple, elastic, and not woody or porous.

An old-fashioned life jacket having thin pieces of cork enclosed within canvas.

A variety of asbestos with a cork-like texture.

A variety of asbestos whose fibres are loosely interlaced, giving it a cork-like texture.