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corkless

corkless adjective: lacking a cork.

Adjective

corkless (not comparable)

  1. Lacking a cork.
    • It did not see daylight again until it was unpacked, together with its comrades, in the cellar of a wine merchant; and then for the first time it was rinsed out — that was an odd sensation. It then lay empty and corkless, and felt strangely dull, as if it lacked something, though it didn't know...1858, Hans Christian Andersen, The Bottle Neck

Origin of corkless

From cork + -less.

Questions about corkless

What does corkless mean?
Corkless means lacking a cork.
What part of speech is corkless?
Corkless is an adjective.

Words near corkless in the dictionary

  1. Corkins
  2. corkir
  3. corkish
  4. Corkishes
  5. corkite
  6. corkless
  7. corklike
  8. corkline
  9. corklines
  10. corkmaker
  11. corkmakers

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