corked

1. (of wine) spoilt by a musty taint arising from a fault in the cork.

   always open and taste your wine before the meal, if only to check that it is not corked

1. close or seal (a bottle) with a cork.

   the bottles were tightly corked and wired

2. draw with burnt cork.

   he had corked a moustache on his upper lip

3. illicitly hollow out (a baseball bat) and fill it with cork to make it lighter.

   the balls are doctored and the bats are corked

4. suffer a painful bruising injury to (a limb) as a result of a heavy blow, especially while participating in a contact sport.

   he corked his thigh and limped off

   she was subbed off in the first half because of a corked hip

Middle English: from Dutch and Low German kork, from Spanish alcorque ‘cork-soled sandal’, from Arabic al- ‘the’ and (probably) Spanish Arabic qurq, qorq, based on Latin quercus ‘oak, cork oak’.