When stacking wine on its side in a bin, care should always be taken to be sure there is no air bubble left next to the cork.

The best rule of thumb for detecting corked wine ( provided the eye has not already spotted it ) is to smell the wet end of the cork after pulling it: if it smells of wine, the bottle is probably all right ; ;

A shuttlecock ( often abbreviated to shuttle ; also called a birdie ) is a high-drag projectile, with an open conical shape: the cone is formed from sixteen overlapping feathers embedded into a rounded cork base.

) Thus the alveolar click sounds something like a cork pulled from a bottle ( a low-pitch pop ), at least in Xhosa ; while the dental click is like English tsk!

The extra length is helpful for a maker, who can use a cork or plug at the bottom to adjust the pitch.

It has an open conical shape: the cone is formed from sixteen or so overlapping feathers, usually goose or duck and from the left wing only, embedded into a rounded cork base.

The cork is covered with thin leather.

The diameter of the cork is and the diameter of the circle that the feathers make is around.

" ( A " bung " is a cork in a barrel or bottle of an alcoholic beverage.

* 2, 4, 6-Trichloroanisole, a chemical compound which is the cause of cork taint in wine

* Robert Hooke discovers that cork is made of " tiny little rooms " which he first calls " Cells ".

( This is perhaps because in the United States so-called fancy cancels were prevalent in this period, with the cancelling device often hand-cut from cork by the postmaster in elaborate shapes such as flags, stars or shapes that were seasonally-appropriate such as turkeys for Thanksgiving ).

This is a metal whistle containing a pea made out of cork.

It is mostly based on cork work and mineral processing of granite.

In fact, it is easy to find cork oaks in many parts of the region and the whole area is rich in granite, especially in vicinity of Monte Limbara. Santa Teresa di Gallura

The bark is deeply ridged, composed of thin, woodlike plates separating heavy layers of cork ; bark of trees over 1 m ( 3 feet ) in diameter is from 15 – 20 cm ( 6-8 inches ) thick.

The natural terrain is fertile, the fields often broken by woodlands, e. g., with cork, oak, and pine.

A package is now protected under the Act, which includes any case, box container, receptacle, vessel, casket, bottle, wrapper, label, band, ticket, reel, frame, capsule, cap, lid, stopper, and cork.

The mushroom shape that occurs in the transition is a result of the bottom section, which is in contact with the wine, being composed of two stacked discs of pristine cork, cemented to the upper portion which is a conglomerate of ground cork and glue.

The ball is a hard solid sphere slightly smaller than a tennis ball, consisting of a cork core covered by two pieces of leather stitched together.

While the cane on an oboe reed is mounted on a small metal tube ( the staple ) partially covered in cork, there is no such cork on a cor anglais reed, which fits directly on the bocal.

The diameter balls are handmade and consist of a core made of cork with fabric tape tightly wound around it and covered with a hand-sewn layer of heavy, woven, woollen cloth, traditionally " Melton " cloth ( not felt, which is unwoven and not strong enough to last as a ball covering ).

Note the size of raft, shape and material ( cork covered in canvas with an open webbed bottom ).

A cricket ball consists of cork covered by leather, and manufacture is heavily regulated by cricket law at first class level.

A cricket ball is made from a core of cork, which is layered with tightly wound string, and covered by a leather case with a slightly raised sewn seam.

The exterior of the SLA was covered by a thin () layer of cork and painted white to minimize thermal stresses during launch and ascent.

The prefabricated two-story building was covered with around 55 tons of expanded cork agglomerate and with hand-made glazed tiles on the patio and had a double glass fibre canvas membrane roof.

A sliotar or sliothar () is a hard solid sphere slightly larger than a tennis ball, consisting of a cork core covered by two pieces of leather stitched together.

The usual method of display is in a glass-covered box, with the insects mounted on specially made non corrosive insect pins stuck into foam board ( typically Plastazote ) or paper covered cork at the bottom of the box.

* Ball – A red or white ball with a cork base, wrapped in twine covered with leather.

The ball features a rubber or cork center, wrapped in yarn and covered in leather.

In one scene, the entire deck is covered with of imported granular cork from Portugal which creates the realistic appearance of a beach.

; Ball: A cork sphere, tightly wound with layers of yarn or string and covered with a stitched leather coat.

Many of the non-marble floors were covered in cork ( provided and installed by the David E. Kennedy Co .), and carpeting was provided by Woodward & Lothrop ( the department store chain ).

Bocals can be made from a variety of metals, including nickel silver, brass, sterling silver, or even gold, and are covered at the lower end with a cork sleeve, allowing the bocal to fit tightly in the socket at the top of the instrument.

many people go to extreme lengths in decanting, chilling or warming, or banishing without further investigation any bottle with so much as a slightly suspicious cork.

In the countries bordering the Mediterranean, there are groves of orange and olive trees, evergreen oaks, cork trees and pines, intermixed with cypresses, myrtles, arbutus and fragrant tree-heaths.

These nylon shuttles may be constructed with either natural cork or synthetic foam base, and a plastic skirt.

The walls of cork cells in the bark of trees are impregnated with suberin, and suberin also forms the permeability barrier in primary roots known as the Casparian strip.

Early crochet hooks ranged from primitive bent needles in a cork handle, used by poor Irish lace workers, to expensively crafted silver, brass, steel, ivory and bone hooks set into a variety of handles, some of which were better designed to show off a lady's hands than they were to work with thread.

The overseas advertising of the product often focuses upon the Australian connotations of the beer, e. g. with reference to stereotypical Australian imagery such as kangaroos, exaggerated accents, and cork hats.

The original form of the device was just a glass bottle partially filled with water, with a metal wire passing through a cork closing it.

Major League Baseball confiscated and tested 76 of Sosa's other bats after his ejection ; all were found to be clean, with no cork.

Counterclockwise rotation of monotrichous polar flagella pushes the cell forward with the flagella trailing behind, much like a corkscrew moving inside cork.

Using old technology, this was often done with rubber ( or possibly cork ) stoppers inserted between the component glassware items.

However, rubber ( and of course cork ) are not as chemically inert or heat-resistant as glass and degrade with age.

Similar to western fly-rods tenkara rods also have cork, and sometimes even wooden handles, with wooden handles ( such as red-pine, and phoenix-tree wood ) being the more prized rods due to their increased sensitivity to fish bites and the heavier feel that helps balance the rods.

Spinning rods are made from graphite or fiberglass with a cork or PVC foam handle, and tend to be between 5 and 8. 5 feet ( 1. 5-2. 6 m ) in length.

The fabrication of the falles continues to evolve in modern times, when the largest displays are made of polystyrene and soft cork easily molded with hot saws.

The Q-ships ' cargoes were light wood ( balsa or cork ) or wooden caskets, and even if torpedoed they would remain afloat, encouraging the U-boat to surface and sink them with a deck gun.

Birches, both Siberian silver birch ( Betula platyphylla ) and Erman's birch ( B. ermanii ), poplar, elm, Bird cherry ( Prunus padus ), Japanese yew ( Taxus cuspidata ) and several willows are mixed with the conifers ; while farther south the maple, rowan and oak, as also the Japanese Panax ricinifolium, the Amur cork tree ( Phellodendron amurense ), the Spindle ( Euonymus macropterus ) and the vine ( Vitis thunbergii ) make their appearance.

The ink was sealed inside the quill with cork.