Cork, “to draw a CORK,” to give a bloody nose.—Pugilistic.
Corkage, money charged when persons at an hotel provide their own wine—sixpence being charged for each “cork” drawn.
Corked, said of wine which tastes of cork, from being badly decanted, or which has lost flavour from various other obvious causes.
Corker, “that’s a CORKER,” i.e., that settles the question, or closes the discussion.
Corks, a butler. Derivation very obvious.
Corks, money; “how are you off for CORKS?” a sailors’ term of a very expressive kind, denoting the means of “keeping afloat.”
Corned, drunk or intoxicated. Possibly from soaking or pickling oneself like CORNED beef.
Corner, “the CORNER,” Tattersall’s famous horse repository and betting rooms, so called from the fact of its situation, which was at Hyde Park Corner. Though Tattersall’s has been removed some distance, to Albert Gate, it is still known to the older habitués of the Subscription Room as “the CORNER.”
Cornered, hemmed in a corner, placed in a position from which there is no escape.
Corner-man, the end singer of a corps of Ethiopian or nigger minstrels. There are two corner men, one generally plays the bones and the other the tambourine. Corner-men are the grotesques of a minstrel company.