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3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Corkscrew \Cork"screw`\ (-skr[udd]`), n. An instrument with a screw or a steel spiral for drawing corks from bottles. {Corkscrew stairs}, a spiral staircase around a solid newel. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Corkscrew \Cork"screw`\, v. t. To press forward in a winding way as to corkscrew one's way through a crowd. [Colloq.] --Dickens. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: corkscrew n : a device for pulling corks [syn: {bottle screw}] v : move in a spiral or zigzag course [syn: {spiral}]
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