cork

n 1: outer bark of the cork oak; used for stoppers for bottles

etc.

2: (botany) outer tissue of bark; a protective layer of dead

cells [syn: {phellem}]

3: the plug in the mouth of a bottle (especially a wine bottle)

4: a small float usually made of cork; attached to a fishing

line [syn: {bob}, {bobber}, {bobfloat}]

v : close a bottle with a cork [syn: {cork up}] [ant: {uncork}]

Zork

/zork/ The second of the great early experiments in

computer fantasy gaming; see {ADVENT}. Zork was originally

written on {MIT-DM} during the late 1970s, later distributed

with {BSD Unix} as a patched, sourceless {RT-11} {Fortran}

binary (see {retrocomputing}) and commercialised as "The Zork

Trilogy" by {Infocom}. The Fortran source was later rewritten

for portability and released to {Usenet} under the name

"Dungeon".

Both Fortran "Dungeon" and translated {C} versions are

available from many {FTP archives}.

[{Jargon File}]

(1998-09-21)