corking

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of cork

comparative more corking · superlative most corking

1. informalsplendid, enjoyable, bang-up

   a wonderful all around ballplayer and a corking fine fellow

   1927, Lou Gehrig, Following the Babe in Alan D. Gaff, Lou Gehrig: The Lost Memoir, Simon & Schuster 2020, page 59

plural corkings

1. uncountableThe formation of white, cork-like striations on a jalapeño pepper.
2. countableobsoleteuncountableA kind of pin.

   There were about forty lines; and such lines! of all sorts and sizes, like a paper of mixed pins, […] long and short, corkings and minikins, jumbled altogether!

   1842, The New Monthly Magazine and Universal Register (page 383)