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- One who puts corks into bottles.
#:1857 Yes it is, Frank. Don't you see? Laertes is to take the best of care of his friends -- his proved friends, on the same principal that a wine-corker takes the best of care of his proved bottles. � Herman Melville, The Confidence-Man'', Chapter 30.
- Something remarkable, something over the top.
#:1889 Well, a body is bound to admit that for just a modest little one-line ad., it's a corker." � Mark Twain, [http://etext.virginia.edu/etcbin/ot2www-pubeng?specfile/texts/english/modeng/publicsearch/modengpub.o2w&actsurround&offset645923653&tagTwain,+Mark,+1835-1910:+A+Connecticut+Yankee+in+King+Arthur's+Court,+1889&querycorker&idTwaYank A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court.]
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