Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A kind of strawboard or cardboard in which ground cork is mixed with the paper-pulp. It is light, elastic, and a non-conductor of heat and sound.
- noun In currying, a board, with a cork surface, used by a workman to board or grain a skin or hide.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A kind of
strawboard orcardboard in which groundcork is mixed with the paper-pulp.
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Examples
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I chose the size and location of the white-board and cork-board, though my predecessor/successor chose the wall and furniture colours.
Roller-coaster pnijjar 2008
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When she tacked up the poster on the cork-board and explained the details, I noticed Paul perk up in his seat.
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Living Catholic Faith Jack Canfield 2008
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When she tacked up the poster on the cork-board and explained the details, I noticed Paul perk up in his seat.
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Living Catholic Faith Jack Canfield 2008
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Plus they forgot to take their cork-board, so I can deliver it for them.
phluid61 Diary Entry phluid61 2006
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My inspiration board is a cork-board that hangs on the wall in my craft room.
The Art and Craft of Entertaining Kimberly Kennedy 2005
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My inspiration board is a cork-board that hangs on the wall in my craft room.
The Art and Craft of Entertaining Kimberly Kennedy 2005
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Snapshots of staff members and their families were pinned to a cork-board above a round table.
Winter Soldier Carroll, Marisa 1999
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It was a fairly large conference room typical of the kind in many an ad agency: a portable blackboard up front; a good many enlarged photographs and sketches pinned to the cork-board walls, most of them of settings or the plans for settings down on the Big Floor; a long conference table surrounded by men in shirt-sleeves, sweaters, or suit coats.
Time and Again Finney, Jack 1995
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BACK FOR GRUB 'was still pinned to the cork-board.
Longshot Francis, Dick 1990
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'Because of your message,' Mackie said, 'on the cork-board.'
Longshot Francis, Dick 1990
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