Crossword clues for corkscrew
corkscrew
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
corkscrew \cork"screw`\ (k[^o]rk"skr[udd]`), n. An instrument with a screw or a steel spiral for drawing corks from bottles.
corkscrew \cork"screw`\ (k[^o]rk"skr[udd]`), a. shaped like a corkscrew; spiral; helical.
corkscrew stairs, a spiral staircase around a solid newel.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
Having the tightly winding shape of a corkscrew. n. An implement for opening bottles that are sealed by a cork. Sometimes specifically such an implement that includes a screw-shaped part, or worm. v
1 (context intransitive English) To wind or twist in the manner of a corkscrew; to move with much horizontal and vertical shifting. 2 (context transitive English) To cause something to twist or move in a spiral path or shape. 3 To extract information or consent from someone.
WordNet
n. a bottle opener that pulls corks [syn: bottle screw]
v. move in a spiral or zigzag course [syn: spiral]
Wikipedia
A corkscrew is a tool for drawing stopping corks from bottles.
Corkscrew may also refer to:
- Corkscrew (comics), a mutant in Marvel Comics' X-Statix
- Corkscrew, a professional wrestling aerial technique
- Corkscrew (program), SSH over HTTPS
- Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary, a tree and bird sanctuary in Florida
- Corkscrew (trick), a martial arts move practiced in tricking and breakdancing
- Corkscrew, a competitor on Robot Wars
- Genlisea, the corkscrew plant
- Korketrekkeren ("The Corkscrew"), a former Olympic bobsled track in Oslo, Norway
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 are necessary because corks themselves, being small and smooth, are difficult to grip and remove, particularly when inserted fully into an inflexible glass bottle. More recent styles of corkscrew incorporate various systems of levers that further increase the amount of force that can be applied outwards upon the cork, making easier the extraction of difficult corks.
Corkscrew is a program that enables the user to tunnel arbitrary TCP connections through most HTTP and HTTPS proxy servers. Combined with features of SSH such as port forwarding, this can allow many types of services to be run securely over the SSH via HTTP connections.
Supported proxy servers:
- Gauntlet
- CacheFlow
- Internet Junkbuster
- Squid
- Apache's mod_proxy
Corkscrew is a steel roller coaster built by Arrow Development at Cedar Point in Sandusky, Ohio, United States. When built in 1976, it was the first roller coaster in the world with 3 inversions. The coaster, which features Arrow's first vertical loop, was built during the same time period as The Great American Revolution at Magic Mountain. However, Revolution opened seven days prior and is therefore credited as the first modern-day coaster to feature a vertical loop.
Corkscrew is a steel roller coaster located at Playland At the PNE amusement park in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. It is famous for its appearance in the 2006 motion picture Final Destination 3 (known in the movie as Devil's Flight) and the 2012 motion picture Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days, as well as the popular television series Smallville (season three's "Magnetic"). The bonus disc of the Final Destination 3 DVD set includes behind the scenes footage shot on and around the coaster, documenting the challenges involved in shooting the complex scenes.
Corkscrew is an Arrow Development prototype Corkscrew roller coaster located at Silverwood Theme Park. Ten exact replicas of this same design were produced 1975–1979 at other scattered parks. This corkscrew previously operated at Knott's Berry Farm from 1975-89. Developed by Ron Toomer of Arrow Dynamics, a Utah-based design firm, the "Corkscrew" was the first steel inverting roller coaster open to the public, with identical models opening at three other parks days later.
Corkscrew was a steel roller coaster manufactured by Dutch company Vekoma to a design by Arrow Dynamics. The coaster was located in the Ug Land area of Alton Towers in Staffordshire, England. It was the park's oldest ride and is considered the greatest factor in promoting the new theme park to the British public. It was one of the first double-inverting coasters in Europe (the first in the UK), so it received much publicity and avid popularity in the 1980s. Waiting times for the ride frequently reached 6–9 hours during the first few months of operation at Alton Towers, and the park would often be forced to close early as it found itself swamped with visitors long before the evening ever came.
Corkscrew is the name of a roller coaster at Valleyfair in Shakopee, Minnesota featuring one vertical loop and two corkscrews. Built in 1980, Corkscrew was planned to reflect the design of its sister roller coaster Corkscrew at Cedar Point. It is notably one of the first roller coasters to feature a double corkscrew, as well as a vertical loop. The main differences that the Valleyfair model has is the addition of a finale helix and the omission of the camelback before the loop. Until the hypercoaster Wild Thing (the fifth highest and fastest roller coaster in the world at the time it opened in 1996), Corkscrew was the only outdoor all-steel roller coaster in Minnesota. Corkscrew is currently the only roller coaster at Valleyfair with inversions. The coaster's track was painted blue when it open in 1980 but was repainted orange and yellow in 2011.
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.