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corkscrew
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
A corkscrew is a tool for drawing corks from wine bottles . In its traditional form, a corkscrew simply consists of a pointed metallic helix (often called the "worm") attached to a handle, which the user screws into the cork and pulls to extract it. Corkscrews ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
I. noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ He opened it, after sorting through the kitchen drawers for a corkscrew with an assurance that annoyed Fabio. ▪ I worked the corkscrew in as far as it would go. ▪ In the drawer beneath the gas-ring - a few grey pieces of cutlery, ...
Usage examples of corkscrew.
The ridge terminated just above the legs in a flat, eellike tail that seemed to twirl continually in a tight corkscrewing spiral.
Ogden, Utah, factory went to around-the-clock shifts, turning out flamingo-pink butyl rubber gasproof suits outfitted with what appeared to be corkscrew antennas in the seat area.
Of all the permitted diabolism with which the Enemy is suffered to torment man and his poor relations, the animals, this corkscrew member of the Gramineae, Anthistiria infernalis, is the deadliest.
With a sharp turn which produced a yelp of tormented rubber from the rear wheel, the gyrocar spun off the skyway and onto a descending corkscrew.
While amongst the mopani and masasa trees there was the occasional silver-grey flash of a running kudu, with his long corkscrew horns laid flat along his back.
Wonder of wonders, she was there, dozing beside him, her nymphlike body as bare as the day she was born, her resplendent golden corkscrew curls spilling across his pillow.
French pastrycook with corkscrew moustaches, who served me for a couple of seasons in a cake.
In slow motion the addled pinfish corkscrewed its way to the bottom, taking refuge inside an old horse conch.
Even more surprising to the three men were the war engines, a dozen at least, great catapults and spear-throwing ballistae, and huge corkscrew devices, obviously for burrowing through fortified walls.
Goblins comprised the bulk of the line, trudging with heads down, looking thoroughly miserable, especially those chained to the various powrie war engines catapults, ballistae, and great corkscrew boring machines meant to drive huge holes in castle walls.
When she had covered its entire surface the panic whirled through her body and corkscrewed through her head, and she only stopped herself from screaming aloud.
The craft had been carved from a single tree, its entire lengthmore than ten pacesnow flattened and corkscrewed in its resting place.
No more shouting of any kind, no more yells corkscrewing through her head, it was all over and done with.
There was a momentary flash of sapphire light, a faint smell of ozone, and a lingering but rapidly dissipating coil of pale blue vapor corkscrewing its way upward into nonexistence where an instant before the subofficer had been standing.
Jet black hair, streaked with gray, was pinned up in a knot, but stray cuds had already pulled loose and swung like corkscrews around her flushed cheeks.