Klingon word: SIr'am Part of speech: noun Definition: cork, phellem Source: qep'a' 32 [2025] _______________________________________________ (qep'a' 2025 REQUEST): "What {qorghwI'mey} are often made of on Earth." "So the cork is the 'thing which does close the hole (of the bottle)' ... So the word for the cork is a {qorghwI'}." (MO interviewed by Lieven, 11/12/2013) TREK NOTES: Bashir fires a cork from a champagne bottle at Falcon, Doctor Noah's agent who wears an eye patch, knocking him out cold. (DS9 "Our Man Bashir") O'Brien pulls the cork from a metal bottle of Klingon bloodwine, vintage 2301 ("A very good year for bloodwine" according to O'Brien; Worf judged it "Very smooth.") [DS9 "Image in the Sand"] SEE: qorghwI' cork; pacifier (n) bal jug, jar, bottle (n) -- Voragh Ca'Non Master of the Klingons