Alix, aren't you corking!
"Sisters"
Kathleen Norris
By Jove, we can get in some corking work with the gloves while I'm here.
"A Fool and His Money"
George Barr McCutcheon
After sealing or corking one end of the larger tube, the other end is drawn out to form a tail as described on page 9, taking care to have the tube uniformly heated, and to draw the tail rapidly enough so that the cone is short, as indicated in a, Fig.
"Laboratory Manual of Glass-Blowing"
Francis C. Frary