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CORKSCREWED
Verb
corkscrewed
simple past tense and past participle of corkscrew
Source: Wiktionary
CORKSCREW
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
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