corkscrew

Cork"screw` (-skr"), n. Defn: 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. Defn: To press forward in a winding way; as, to corksrew one's way through a crowd. [Colloq.] Dickens.

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