Definition of corkscrew
: a device for drawing corks from bottles that has a pointed spiral piece of metal turned by a handle
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In 1997, 11 hikers were killed near Page, Arizona, after a wall of water from a rainstorm miles upstream tore through a narrow, twisting series of corkscrew-curved walls on Navajo land known as Lower Antelope Canyon. ___ Ho reported from Las Vegas.
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In 1997, 11 hikers were killed near Page, Arizona, after a wall of water from a rainstorm miles upstream tore through a narrow, twisting series of corkscrew-curved walls on Navajo land known as Lower Antelope Canyon.
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In 1997, 11 hikers were killed near Page, Arizona, after a wall of water from a rainstorm miles upstream tore through a narrow, twisting series of corkscrew-curved walls on Navajo land known as Lower Antelope Canyon.
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New #Jaguar #EPACE has set a @GWR title, completing an epic 15.3 metre-long jump with a 270-degree corkscrew-like ‘barrel roll’ in London.
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The inside comes with four plates, a knife, corkscrew and a removable cutting board.
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King beat the Beer City Bruiser, Chris Sabin and Mark Briscoe in the bout that featured King hitting a slingshot corkscrew plancha on Bruiser and Sabin outside the ring.
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Adult addax weigh 200-300 pounds, are light colored and are identifiable by their corkscrew horns.
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Mounger Pool ONGOING Two outdoor pools, Big Pool with corkscrew slide, shallow Little Pool; swim lessons, open swims, themed events, hours vary daily, Mounger Pool, 2535 32nd Ave.
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First Known Use of corkscrew
1698
Examples of corkscrew in a Sentence
an angelic child with beautiful corkscrew curls
First Known Use of corkscrew
1790
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Definition of corkscrew
transitive verb
1 : wind
2 : to draw out with difficulty
3 : to twist into a spiral
intransitive verb
: to move in a winding course
Examples of corkscrew in a Sentence
practically every word had to be corkscrewed out of the tight-lipped witness
the trail corkscrews through dense woods to the top of the steep hill
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Beneath the dark canopy, vines corkscrew around bulbous trunks and palms burst up like giant shuttlecocks from the dense foliage underfoot.
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The Wild corkscrewed him into the ice by pumping four goals over, through and off the forsaken netminder, whose road-weary defenders left their legs in Winnipeg after Wednesday night’s 7-4 blowout of the Jets.
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First Known Use of corkscrew
1837
CORKSCREW Defined for English Language Learners
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playDefinition of corkscrew for English Language Learners
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: a tool that is used to pull corks from bottles
CORKSCREW Defined for Kids
Definition of corkscrew for Students
: a pointed spiral piece of metal with a handle that is screwed into corks to pull them from bottles
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