Cork"screw` (-skr?"), n.
An instrument with a screw or a steel spiral for drawing corks from bottles.
Corkscrew starts, a spiral staircase around a solid newel.
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Cork"screw`, v. t.
To press forward in a winding way; as, to corksrew one's way through a crowd.
[Colloq.]
Dickens.
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