English words for 'A corkscrew.'
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noun
adj
noun
- a bottle opener that pulls corks
- The screw-shaped worm of a typical corkscrew.
- An implement for opening bottles that are sealed by a cork. Sometimes specifically such an implement that includes a screw-shaped part, or worm.
- (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.
verb
noun
- The spiral wire of a corkscrew.
- A spiral instrument or screw, often like a double corkscrew, used for drawing balls from firearms.
- (informal or poetic, loosely) A maggot or any other insect larva with similar shape and behavior.
- Anything helical, especially the thread of a screw.
- A short revolving screw whose threads drive, or are driven by, a worm wheel or rack by gearing into its teeth.
- A generally tubular invertebrate of the annelid phylum; an earthworm.
- (anatomy) A muscular band in the tongue of some animals, such as dogs; the lytta.
- The condensing tube of a still, often curved and wound to save space.
- More loosely, any of various tubular invertebrates resembling annelids but not closely related to them, such as velvet worms, acorn worms, flatworms, or roundworms.
- (figuratively) An internal tormentor; something that gnaws or afflicts one’s mind with remorse.
- (anatomy) The lytta.
- A contemptible or devious being.
- (cricket) A graphical representation of the total runs scored across a number of overs.
- (preceded by definite article) A dance, or dance move, in which the dancer lies on the floor and undulates the body horizontally thereby moving forwards.
- (computing) A self-replicating program that propagates through a network, differing from a virus in usually lacking any destructive effects.
- (mathematics) A strip of linked tiles sharing parallel edges in a tiling.
- any of numerous relatively small elongated soft-bodied animals especially of the phyla Annelida and Chaetognatha and Nematoda and Nemertea and Platyhelminthes; also many insect larvae
- a person who has a nasty or unethical character undeserving of respect
- screw thread on a gear with the teeth of a worm wheel or rack
- a software program capable of reproducing itself that can spread from one computer to the next over a network
verb
- (intransitive, figuratively) To work one's way by artful or devious means.
- (intransitive) To move with one's body dragging the ground.
- (transitive, figuratively, in “worm out of”) To drag out of, to get information that someone is reluctant or unwilling to give (through artful or devious means or by pleading or asking repeatedly).
- (transitive) To make (one's way) with a crawling motion.
- (transitive) To deworm (an animal).
- (transitive, nautical) To fill in the contlines of (a rope) before parcelling and serving.
- (often followed by out) To effect, remove, drive, draw, or the like, by slow and secret means.
- (transitive) To cut the worm, or lytta, from under the tongue of (a dog, etc.) for the purpose of checking a disposition to gnaw, and formerly supposed to guard against canine madness.
- (transitive) To clean by means of a worm; to draw a wad or cartridge from, as a firearm.
- (transitive, figuratively) To work (one's way or oneself) (into) gradually or slowly; to insinuate.
- to move in a twisting or contorted motion, (especially when struggling)
noun
- A bung or cork.
- A playspot where water flows back on itself, creating a retentive feature.
- A type of knot at the end of a rope, to prevent it from unravelling.
- Someone or something that stops something.
- (informal, soccer) Goalkeeper.
- (botany) Any of several trees of the genus Eugenia, found in Florida and the West Indies.
- (rail transport) A train that calls at all or almost all stations between its origin and destination, including very small ones.
- (finance, slang) In the commodity futures market, someone who is long (owns) a futures contract and is demanding delivery because they want to take possession of the deliverable commodity.
- (nautical) A short rope for making something fast.
- an act so striking or impressive that the show must be delayed until the audience quiets down
- a remark to which there is no polite conversational reply
- (bridge) a playing card with a value sufficiently high to insure taking a trick in a particular suit
- blockage consisting of an object designed to fill a hole tightly
verb
verb
- stuff with cork
- To fill with cork.
- close a bottle with a cork
- To leave the cork in a bottle after attempting to uncork it.
- (transitive) To seal or stop up, especially with a cork stopper.
- (transitive) To block (a street) illegally, to allow a protest or other activity to take place without traffic.
- (transitive) To blacken (as) with a burnt cork.
- (fishing) To position one's drift net just outside of another person's net, thereby intercepting and catching all the fish that would have gone into that person's net.
- (transitive, Australia) To injure through a blow; to induce a haematoma.
- (transitive, baseball) To tamper with (a bat) by drilling out part of the head and filling the cavity with cork or similar light, compressible material.
- (snowboarding, skiing, skateboarding) To perform such a maneuver.
noun
- An angling float, also traditionally made of oak cork.
- The phellem of the cork oak, used for making bottle stoppers, flotation devices, and insulation material.
- outer bark of the cork oak; used for stoppers for bottles etc.
- a small float usually made of cork; attached to a fishing line
- the plug in the mouth of a bottle (especially a wine bottle)
- (botany) outer tissue of bark; a protective layer of dead cells
- (snowboarding, skiing, skateboarding) An aerialist maneuver involving a rotation where the rider goes heels over head, with the board overhead.
- (botany, uncountable) The dead protective tissue between the bark and cambium in woody plants, with suberin deposits making it impervious to gasses and water.
- A bottle stopper made from this or any other material.
- The cork oak, Quercus suber.
adj
adj
verb
- close with a cork or stopper
- give a tip or gratuity to in return for a service, beyond the compensation agreed on
- (transitive) To pass a bribe to (someone).
- (UK, Australia, transitive, informal) To put, throw, or place something without care; to chuck.
- (transitive) To plug, as with a bung.
- (transitive) To batter, bruise; to cause to bulge or swell.
noun
- a plug used to close a hole in a barrel or flask
- (slang) A bribe.
- A stopper, alternative to a cork, often made of rubber, used to prevent fluid passing through the neck of a bottle, vat, a hole in a vessel etc.
- (slang) The human anus.
- The orifice in the bilge of a cask through which it is filled; bung-hole.
- The cecum or anus, especially of livestock.
adj
noun
- A flat, wide cork for plugging a large hole or closing a wide-mouthed bottle.
- Alternative spelling of shiva.
- A beam or plank of split wood.
- A plant fragment remaining in scoured wool.
- A slice, especially of bread.
- A splinter or fragment of the woody core of flax or hemp broken off in braking or scutching
- (papermaking) A dark particle or impurity in finished paper resulting from a bundle of incompletely cooked wood fibres in the pulp.
- A piece of thread or fluff on the surface of cloth or other material.
- Alternative form of shiv.
noun
- The sound made when a cork is forcibly drawn from a bottle.
- The sound made by the movement of liquid into a hollow space.
- (computing) A compression technology for Linux files stored on a read-only block device that allows files to be decompressed on the fly.
- The sound made by a horse's hoof hitting a hard surface.
- A slightly hollow, percussive sound.
- (informal) A small, seedy bar or nightclub; a dive.
verb
verb
- close a bottle with a cork
- (transitive) To enclose in a bottle sealed with a cork.
- (transitive) To block with a cork or something similar.
- (transitive) To make (someone) be quiet.
- (transitive, intransitive, baseball) To put cork in a baseball bat; to use a baseball bat with cork in it.
- (usually imperative, slang, intransitive) Shut up; be quiet.
- (transitive, figurative) To suppress an emotion or impulse.
noun
- a small float usually made of cork; attached to a fishing line
- a hanging weight, especially a metal ball on a string
- a long racing sled (for 2 or more people) with a steering mechanism
- a short or shortened tail of certain animals
- a hair style for women and children; a short haircut all around
- a former monetary unit in Great Britain
- a short abrupt inclination (as of the head)
- (slang) An unspecified amount of money.
- A blow; a shake or jog; a rap, as with the fist.
- A bobbing motion; a quick up and down movement.
- The docked tail of a horse.
- A bobsleigh.
- A curtsy.
- Clipping of shishkabob.
- Any of various hesperiid butterflies.
- A bob haircut.
- The short runner of a sled.
- A short line ending a stanza of a poem.
- A particular style of ringing changes on bells.
- A small wheel, made of leather, with rounded edges, used in polishing spoons, etc.
- Any round object attached loosely to a flexible line, a rod, a body part etc., so that it may swing when hanging from it.
- A bobber (buoyant fishing device).
- The dangling mass of a pendulum or plumb line.
- A working beam in a steam engine.
- (computer graphics, demoscene) A graphical element, resembling a hardware sprite, that can be blitted around the screen in large numbers.
verb
- remove or shorten the tail of an animal
- ride a bobsled
- cut hair in the style of a bob
- make a curtsy; usually done only by girls and women; as a sign of respect
- move up and down repeatedly in a quick, short movement
- (transitive) To shorten by cutting; to dock; to crop.
- (transitive) To cut (hair) into a bob haircut.
- To bobsleigh.
- (intransitive) Synonym of blob (“catch eels using worms strung on thread”).
- To strike with a quick, light blow; to tap.
- (intransitive) To move gently and vertically, in either a single motion or repeatedly up and down, at or near the surface of a body of water, or similar medium.
- (transitive) To move (something) as though it were bobbing in water.
- (with on) To perform oral sex on someone.
- To curtsy.
noun
- a small float usually made of cork; attached to a fishing line
- One who has a bob hairstyle.
- (fishing) A buoyant device (frequently made of cork or hollow plastic) attached to a line so as to suspend the end of the line with the hook (and bait or lure) above the bottom.
- One who takes part in apple bobbing.
- A style of custom motorcycle with stripped-down bodywork and a shortened (or "bobbed") rear fender.
- A person who rides a bobsleigh; a bobsleigher.
noun
adj
verb
noun
noun
- The spiral wire of a corkscrew.
- A spiral instrument or screw, often like a double corkscrew, used for drawing balls from firearms.
- (informal or poetic, loosely) A maggot or any other insect larva with similar shape and behavior.
- Anything helical, especially the thread of a screw.
- A short revolving screw whose threads drive, or are driven by, a worm wheel or rack by gearing into its teeth.
- A generally tubular invertebrate of the annelid phylum; an earthworm.
- (anatomy) A muscular band in the tongue of some animals, such as dogs; the lytta.
- The condensing tube of a still, often curved and wound to save space.
- More loosely, any of various tubular invertebrates resembling annelids but not closely related to them, such as velvet worms, acorn worms, flatworms, or roundworms.
- (figuratively) An internal tormentor; something that gnaws or afflicts one’s mind with remorse.
- (anatomy) The lytta.
- A contemptible or devious being.
- (cricket) A graphical representation of the total runs scored across a number of overs.
- (preceded by definite article) A dance, or dance move, in which the dancer lies on the floor and undulates the body horizontally thereby moving forwards.
- (computing) A self-replicating program that propagates through a network, differing from a virus in usually lacking any destructive effects.
- (mathematics) A strip of linked tiles sharing parallel edges in a tiling.
- any of numerous relatively small elongated soft-bodied animals especially of the phyla Annelida and Chaetognatha and Nematoda and Nemertea and Platyhelminthes; also many insect larvae
- a person who has a nasty or unethical character undeserving of respect
- screw thread on a gear with the teeth of a worm wheel or rack
- a software program capable of reproducing itself that can spread from one computer to the next over a network
verb
- (intransitive, figuratively) To work one's way by artful or devious means.
- (intransitive) To move with one's body dragging the ground.
- (transitive, figuratively, in “worm out of”) To drag out of, to get information that someone is reluctant or unwilling to give (through artful or devious means or by pleading or asking repeatedly).
- (transitive) To make (one's way) with a crawling motion.
- (transitive) To deworm (an animal).
- (transitive, nautical) To fill in the contlines of (a rope) before parcelling and serving.
- (often followed by out) To effect, remove, drive, draw, or the like, by slow and secret means.
- (transitive) To cut the worm, or lytta, from under the tongue of (a dog, etc.) for the purpose of checking a disposition to gnaw, and formerly supposed to guard against canine madness.
- (transitive) To clean by means of a worm; to draw a wad or cartridge from, as a firearm.
- (transitive, figuratively) To work (one's way or oneself) (into) gradually or slowly; to insinuate.
- to move in a twisting or contorted motion, (especially when struggling)
noun
- A bung or cork.
- A playspot where water flows back on itself, creating a retentive feature.
- A type of knot at the end of a rope, to prevent it from unravelling.
- Someone or something that stops something.
- (informal, soccer) Goalkeeper.
- (botany) Any of several trees of the genus Eugenia, found in Florida and the West Indies.
- (rail transport) A train that calls at all or almost all stations between its origin and destination, including very small ones.
- (finance, slang) In the commodity futures market, someone who is long (owns) a futures contract and is demanding delivery because they want to take possession of the deliverable commodity.
- (nautical) A short rope for making something fast.
- an act so striking or impressive that the show must be delayed until the audience quiets down
- a remark to which there is no polite conversational reply
- (bridge) a playing card with a value sufficiently high to insure taking a trick in a particular suit
- blockage consisting of an object designed to fill a hole tightly
verb
adj
noun
- a bottle opener that pulls corks
- The screw-shaped worm of a typical corkscrew.
- An implement for opening bottles that are sealed by a cork. Sometimes specifically such an implement that includes a screw-shaped part, or worm.
- (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.
verb
noun
- A flat, wide cork for plugging a large hole or closing a wide-mouthed bottle.
- Alternative spelling of shiva.
- A beam or plank of split wood.
- A plant fragment remaining in scoured wool.
- A slice, especially of bread.
- A splinter or fragment of the woody core of flax or hemp broken off in braking or scutching
- (papermaking) A dark particle or impurity in finished paper resulting from a bundle of incompletely cooked wood fibres in the pulp.
- A piece of thread or fluff on the surface of cloth or other material.
- Alternative form of shiv.
noun
- The sound made when a cork is forcibly drawn from a bottle.
- The sound made by the movement of liquid into a hollow space.
- (computing) A compression technology for Linux files stored on a read-only block device that allows files to be decompressed on the fly.
- The sound made by a horse's hoof hitting a hard surface.
- A slightly hollow, percussive sound.
- (informal) A small, seedy bar or nightclub; a dive.
verb
verb
- stuff with cork
- To fill with cork.
- close a bottle with a cork
- To leave the cork in a bottle after attempting to uncork it.
- (transitive) To seal or stop up, especially with a cork stopper.
- (transitive) To block (a street) illegally, to allow a protest or other activity to take place without traffic.
- (transitive) To blacken (as) with a burnt cork.
- (fishing) To position one's drift net just outside of another person's net, thereby intercepting and catching all the fish that would have gone into that person's net.
- (transitive, Australia) To injure through a blow; to induce a haematoma.
- (transitive, baseball) To tamper with (a bat) by drilling out part of the head and filling the cavity with cork or similar light, compressible material.
- (snowboarding, skiing, skateboarding) To perform such a maneuver.
noun
- An angling float, also traditionally made of oak cork.
- The phellem of the cork oak, used for making bottle stoppers, flotation devices, and insulation material.
- outer bark of the cork oak; used for stoppers for bottles etc.
- a small float usually made of cork; attached to a fishing line
- the plug in the mouth of a bottle (especially a wine bottle)
- (botany) outer tissue of bark; a protective layer of dead cells
- (snowboarding, skiing, skateboarding) An aerialist maneuver involving a rotation where the rider goes heels over head, with the board overhead.
- (botany, uncountable) The dead protective tissue between the bark and cambium in woody plants, with suberin deposits making it impervious to gasses and water.
- A bottle stopper made from this or any other material.
- The cork oak, Quercus suber.
adj
noun
- a small float usually made of cork; attached to a fishing line
- a hanging weight, especially a metal ball on a string
- a long racing sled (for 2 or more people) with a steering mechanism
- a short or shortened tail of certain animals
- a hair style for women and children; a short haircut all around
- a former monetary unit in Great Britain
- a short abrupt inclination (as of the head)
- (slang) An unspecified amount of money.
- A blow; a shake or jog; a rap, as with the fist.
- A bobbing motion; a quick up and down movement.
- The docked tail of a horse.
- A bobsleigh.
- A curtsy.
- Clipping of shishkabob.
- Any of various hesperiid butterflies.
- A bob haircut.
- The short runner of a sled.
- A short line ending a stanza of a poem.
- A particular style of ringing changes on bells.
- A small wheel, made of leather, with rounded edges, used in polishing spoons, etc.
- Any round object attached loosely to a flexible line, a rod, a body part etc., so that it may swing when hanging from it.
- A bobber (buoyant fishing device).
- The dangling mass of a pendulum or plumb line.
- A working beam in a steam engine.
- (computer graphics, demoscene) A graphical element, resembling a hardware sprite, that can be blitted around the screen in large numbers.
verb
- remove or shorten the tail of an animal
- ride a bobsled
- cut hair in the style of a bob
- make a curtsy; usually done only by girls and women; as a sign of respect
- move up and down repeatedly in a quick, short movement
- (transitive) To shorten by cutting; to dock; to crop.
- (transitive) To cut (hair) into a bob haircut.
- To bobsleigh.
- (intransitive) Synonym of blob (“catch eels using worms strung on thread”).
- To strike with a quick, light blow; to tap.
- (intransitive) To move gently and vertically, in either a single motion or repeatedly up and down, at or near the surface of a body of water, or similar medium.
- (transitive) To move (something) as though it were bobbing in water.
- (with on) To perform oral sex on someone.
- To curtsy.
noun
- a small float usually made of cork; attached to a fishing line
- One who has a bob hairstyle.
- (fishing) A buoyant device (frequently made of cork or hollow plastic) attached to a line so as to suspend the end of the line with the hook (and bait or lure) above the bottom.
- One who takes part in apple bobbing.
- A style of custom motorcycle with stripped-down bodywork and a shortened (or "bobbed") rear fender.
- A person who rides a bobsleigh; a bobsleigher.
noun
adj
verb
verb
- stuff with cork
- To fill with cork.
- close a bottle with a cork
- To leave the cork in a bottle after attempting to uncork it.
- (transitive) To seal or stop up, especially with a cork stopper.
- (transitive) To block (a street) illegally, to allow a protest or other activity to take place without traffic.
- (transitive) To blacken (as) with a burnt cork.
- (fishing) To position one's drift net just outside of another person's net, thereby intercepting and catching all the fish that would have gone into that person's net.
- (transitive, Australia) To injure through a blow; to induce a haematoma.
- (transitive, baseball) To tamper with (a bat) by drilling out part of the head and filling the cavity with cork or similar light, compressible material.
- (snowboarding, skiing, skateboarding) To perform such a maneuver.
noun
- An angling float, also traditionally made of oak cork.
- The phellem of the cork oak, used for making bottle stoppers, flotation devices, and insulation material.
- outer bark of the cork oak; used for stoppers for bottles etc.
- a small float usually made of cork; attached to a fishing line
- the plug in the mouth of a bottle (especially a wine bottle)
- (botany) outer tissue of bark; a protective layer of dead cells
- (snowboarding, skiing, skateboarding) An aerialist maneuver involving a rotation where the rider goes heels over head, with the board overhead.
- (botany, uncountable) The dead protective tissue between the bark and cambium in woody plants, with suberin deposits making it impervious to gasses and water.
- A bottle stopper made from this or any other material.
- The cork oak, Quercus suber.
adj
verb
- close with a cork or stopper
- give a tip or gratuity to in return for a service, beyond the compensation agreed on
- (transitive) To pass a bribe to (someone).
- (UK, Australia, transitive, informal) To put, throw, or place something without care; to chuck.
- (transitive) To plug, as with a bung.
- (transitive) To batter, bruise; to cause to bulge or swell.
noun
- a plug used to close a hole in a barrel or flask
- (slang) A bribe.
- A stopper, alternative to a cork, often made of rubber, used to prevent fluid passing through the neck of a bottle, vat, a hole in a vessel etc.
- (slang) The human anus.
- The orifice in the bilge of a cask through which it is filled; bung-hole.
- The cecum or anus, especially of livestock.
adj
verb
- close a bottle with a cork
- (transitive) To enclose in a bottle sealed with a cork.
- (transitive) To block with a cork or something similar.
- (transitive) To make (someone) be quiet.
- (transitive, intransitive, baseball) To put cork in a baseball bat; to use a baseball bat with cork in it.
- (usually imperative, slang, intransitive) Shut up; be quiet.
- (transitive, figurative) To suppress an emotion or impulse.
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adj
noun
- a bottle opener that pulls corks
- The screw-shaped worm of a typical corkscrew.
- An implement for opening bottles that are sealed by a cork. Sometimes specifically such an implement that includes a screw-shaped part, or worm.
- (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.