cork vs gammon

cork

verb
  • To tamper with (a bat) by drilling out part of the head and filling the cavity with cork or similar light, compressible material. 

  • To seal or stop up, especially with a cork stopper. 

  • To leave the cork in a bottle after attempting to uncork it. 

  • To perform such a maneuver. 

  • To fill with cork. 

  • To position one's drift net just outside of another person's net, thereby intercepting and catching all the fish that would have gone into that person's net. 

  • To blacken (as) with a burnt cork. 

  • To injure through a blow; to induce a haematoma. 

noun
  • The cork oak, Quercus suber. 

  • The bark of the cork oak, which is very light and porous and used for making bottle stoppers, flotation devices, and insulation material. 

  • An angling float, also traditionally made of oak cork. 

  • A bottle stopper made from this or any other material. 

  • The dead protective tissue between the bark and cambium in woody plants, with suberin deposits making it impervious to gasses and water. 

  • An aerialist maneuver involving a rotation where the rider goes heels over head, with the board overhead. 

adj
  • Having the property of a head over heels rotation. 

gammon

verb
  • To lash with ropes (on a ship). 

  • To cure bacon by salting. 

  • To beat by a gammon (without the opponent bearing off a stone). 

noun
  • Backgammon (the game itself). 

  • A rope fastening a bowsprit to the stem of a ship (usually called a gammoning). 

  • A victory in backgammon achieved when the opponent has not borne off a single stone. 

  • A cut of quick-cured pork leg. 

  • A middle-aged or older right-wing, reactionary white man, or such men collectively. 

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