uncorking

English

Verb

uncorking

1. present participle and gerund of uncork
   • 1872, [Thomas Hardy], “VIII: Dick Meets His Father”, in Under the Greenwood Tree: A Rural Painting of the Dutch School, volume II, London: Tinsley Brothers, →OCLC, part II, pages 25–26:

     Reaching home he went up to his bedroom, shut the door as if he were going to be seen no more in this life, and taking a sheet of paper and uncorking the ink-bottle, he began a letter.

Noun

uncorking (countable and uncountable, plural uncorkings)

1. The removal of a cork from a bottle or similar.