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screw cap

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Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
A screw cap is a metal cap that screws onto threads on the neck of a bottle , generally with a metal skirt down the neck to resemble the traditional wine capsule ("foil"). A layer of plastic (often PVDC ), cork, rubber , or other soft material is used as ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The cap of a bottle or jar which screws onto the threaded lip of the container.

Usage examples of screw cap.

The label was gone and the metal screw cap had been replaced with a hard, waxy plug, but it looked like the same bottle.

Four feet long, eight inches in diameter, empty except for dust, small holes punched through it, screw cap missing.

He scanned the room quickly, noted the pipeline mechanism, noted the row of sacks filled with a white substance, noted the dirty yellow ball on one end, the screw cap beside it, and the white sacks still jammed inside.

One end held a screw cap, so Pitt began twisting, intrigued by the great number of revolutions, before it finally dropped off in his hand.

It was not full-bodied or frisky or fruity or smoky, but it went down as well as any wine could that came with a screw cap and cost less than five dollars a gallon.

After three failures, she squinted carefully and saw that the bottle had a screw cap instead of the plug stopper she was used to.

Methodical hands had rummaged through it, and the screw cap to a bottle of Givenchy III was loose and cologne had leaked.

At a glance, she knows the exact stage of metamorphosis before the creamy carcass, no larger than a grain of rice, was preserved in a specimen vessel fitted with a black screw cap.

He was still the same Henry from yesterday evening, the same man who had sat staring at a bottle of vodka and defying himself not to pick it up and turn the screw cap and give himself all the courage and confidence that lay distilled within it.

He got up and metal snapped in the dark as he broke screw cap seals.

In a few minutes, he had everything back in except a brightly colored plastic cartridge box and a wide-mouthed bottle with a screw cap.