uncorking

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noun

The removal of a cork from a bottle or similar.

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Meanings

verb
  1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of uncork

    Reaching home he went up to his bedroom, shut the door as if he were going to be seen no more in this life, and taking a sheet of paper and uncorking the ink-bottle, he began a letter.

    1872, [Thomas Hardy], “VIII: Dick Meets His Father”, in Under the Greenwood Tree: A Rural Painting of the Dutch School, volume II, London: Tinsley Brothers, →OCLC, part II, pages 25–26
noununcorking (countable and uncountable, plural uncorkings)

plural uncorkings

  1. countableuncountableThe removal of a cork from a bottle or similar.
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APA

uncorking. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/uncorking

MLA

“uncorking.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/uncorking. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “uncorking,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/uncorking.

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