corkscrew, bottle screw
(noun) a bottle opener that pulls corks
corkscrew, spiral
(verb) move in a spiral or zigzag course
Source: WordNet® 3.1
corkscrew (plural corkscrews)
An implement for opening bottles that are sealed by a cork. Sometimes specifically such an implement that includes a screw-shaped part, or worm.
The screw-shaped worm of a typical corkscrew.
(boxing, martial arts) A type of sharp, twisting punch, often one thrown close and from the side.
(amusement rides) A type of inversion used in roller coasters.
• (implement for opening bottles): bottle screw, cork puller
• bottle opener
• (types of corkscrew bottle opener): waiter's friend; wing corkscrew; butler's friend
• worm
• (other types of bottle opener): church key, wine key
corkscrew (not comparable)
Having the tightly winding shape of a corkscrew.
• (having a tightly winding shape): helical
corkscrew (third-person singular simple present corkscrews, present participle corkscrewing, simple past and past participle corkscrewed)
(intransitive) To wind or twist in the manner of a corkscrew; to move with much horizontal and vertical shifting.
(transitive) To cause something to twist or move in a spiral path or shape.
(transitive, informal) To extract information or consent from someone.
• (move in a corkscrew path): spiral
Source: Wiktionary
Cork"screw` (-skr"), n.
Definition: An instrument with a screw or a steel spiral for drawing corks from bottles. Corkscrew starts, a spiral staircase around a solid newel.
Cork"screw`, v. t.
Definition: To press forward in a winding way; as, to corksrew one's way through a crowd. [Colloq.] Dickens.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
9 January 2025
(noun) (obstetrics) position of the fetus in the uterus relative to the birth canal; “Cesarean sections are sometimes the result of abnormal presentations”
According to Guinness World Records, on 25 September 2016, the Birla Institute of Management Technology (India) in Uttar Pradesh, India, constructed the largest coffee cups pyramid consisting of 23,821 cups. They used paper takeaway coffee cups to build the pyramid.
