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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Mounger Pool ONGOING Two outdoor pools, Big Pool with corkscrew slide, shallow Little Pool; swim lessons, open swims, themed events, daily through Sept. 10, 2535 32nd Ave.
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There’s no corkscrew or glass needed, and the Sofia mini even comes with a straw.
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His restaurant uses 10-pound chubs about 18 inches long, cuts them into quarters and scores them, corkscrew-fashion.
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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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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
Definition of corkscrew
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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The real risk-takers make a beeline for the corkscrewing tubular Black Slides.
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The KC-130 tanker corkscrewed into the ground Monday afternoon about 85 miles north of Jackson, the state capital, officials said.
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Navy and Marine Corps investigators are starting to probe why a military transport plane suddenly corkscrewed into a Mississippi soybean field on Monday, killing all 16 personnel onboard.
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A charged particle in the very short-term can still be thought of as corkscrewing around a single field line.
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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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On the other end, Ball corkscrewed a three that went in.
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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
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