CORKSCREW

n. v.

2 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

An instrument with a screw or a steel spiral for drawing corks from bottles. Corkscrew starts, a spiral staircase around a solid newel.

2.
v.

To press forward in a winding way; as, to corksrew one's way through a crowd. [Colloq.] Dickens.


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