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Meanings of wine cork in English

Portuguese
rolha
Spanish
tapón de corcho
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Stopper used to seal wine bottles.

rolha
Usage of wine cork in English
1
It was big as a wine cork.
Hard-boiled wonderland and the end of the world: a novel
2
It was more than twice as long as the wine cork, and it stuck out whatever I did.
Conrad’s Fate
3
She sat me on the bedroom floor and gathered a sewing needle, pink thread, ice, and a wine cork.
High on arrival
4
As we left the room, I remembered that I had left the port wine cork in the pocket of my own trousers.
Conrad’s Fate
5
The hulk glanced at the wasted door as casually as he might a popped wine cork, then turned his attentions toward me.
Hard-boiled wonderland and the end of the world: a novel
6
But they mean, like, "What country are you from?" I'm always miffed when they don't know about Cork or think it means a wine cork.
The Irish Times
7
It wasn't time to pop the Skaylian Rock Worm Wine cork just yet.
Artemis Fowl: The Eternity Code
8
The laboratory tests wine corks and bottles of wine from producers to see which stoppers perform best.
Reuters
9
Paper towels, wadded Kleenex, grocery receipts, wine corks, paper clips, chess pieces, bottle caps-itwas like a salvage yard in there.
Marley & me: life and love with the world's worst dog
10
For example, cork is the main ancestral crop and about one third of all wine corks in the world come from Portugal.
The South African
Translations for wine cork
Portuguese
rolha