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Cork

02323 Cork, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Corked (k?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 &hand; 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. /note

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02323 Cor*dil"ler*a (k?r-d?l"l?r-?; Sp. k?r`d?-ly?"r?), n. [Sp., fr. OSp. cordilla, cordiella, dim. of cuerda a rope, string. See Cord.] (Geol.) A mountain ridge or chain. note &hand; Cordillera is sometimes applied, in geology, to the system of mountain chains near the border of a continent; thus, the western cordillera of North America in the United States includes the Rocky Mountains, Sierra Nevada, Coast and Cascade ranges. /note