Sekirov Dictionary

corkscrew

UK /ˈkɔːk.skɹuː/US /ˈkɔɹk.skɹu/

noun 4
verb 3
adjective 1
forms 3

noun4

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An implement for opening bottles that are sealed by a cork. Sometimes specifically such an implement that includes a screw-shaped part, or worm.
- I opened the wine with a corkscrew.
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A type of inversion used in roller coasters.
- A corkscrew has a 90° turn just prior to the loop and a 90° turn just afterward. — 1987
•
The screw-shaped worm of a typical corkscrew.
- A bubble rising rapidly in water describes a spiral closely resembling a corkscrew. — 1898
•
A type of sharp, twisting punch, often one thrown close and from the side.
- […] the immovable McCoy let fly his most miraculous punch of the evening, of his lives, a world-beater of a right corkscrew, a punch years in the windup […] — 2002

verb3

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To wind or twist in the manner of a corkscrew; to move with much horizontal and vertical shifting.
- Into the tea–room Mr. Pickwick turned; and catching sight of him, Mr. Bantam corkscrewed his way through the crowd and welcomed him with ecstasy. — 1832
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To cause something to twist or move in a spiral path or shape.
- Caught and twisted—corkscrewed in the mazes of the line, loose harpoons and lances, with all their bristling barbs and points, came flashing and dripping up to the chocks in the bows of Ahab’s boat. — 1851
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(informal) To extract information or consent from someone.
- I strongly suspect (from what Small has dropped, and from what we have corkscrewed out of him) that those letters I was to have brought to your ladyship were not destroyed when I supposed they were. — 1852

adjective1

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Having the tightly winding shape of a corkscrew.
- All the heat of a decade of fierce Indian summers is stored in the pitch-black, polished walls of the corkscrew staircase. — 1885

forms

corkscrewed · corkscrewing · corkscrews

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