cork, n.All

A Cork is a wine tampon

Champagne is dangerous --- you're more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider

Cork is harvested by shearing the bark from the cork oak tree every 9 to 12 years.

Spiders are not that dangerous --- you're more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider

A Cork is a simple lock whose skeleton key is any corkscrew

Wine bottles used to be plugged with oil-soaked rags before cork came into use.