English words for 'plural of corkscrewing'
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- 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
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- To fill with cork.
- stuff with cork
- (transitive) To block (a street) illegally, to allow a protest or other activity to take place without traffic.
- To leave the cork in a bottle after attempting to uncork it.
- (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.
- (transitive) To seal or stop up, especially with a cork stopper.
- (snowboarding, skiing, skateboarding) To perform such a maneuver.
- close a bottle with a cork
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- (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.
- 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.
- The cork oak, Quercus suber.
- the plug in the mouth of a bottle (especially a wine bottle)
- a small float usually made of cork; attached to a fishing line
- (botany) outer tissue of bark; a protective layer of dead cells
- outer bark of the cork oak; used for stoppers for bottles etc.
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- An implement for opening bottles that are sealed by a cork. Sometimes specifically such an implement that includes a screw-shaped part, or worm.
- The screw-shaped worm of a typical corkscrew.
- (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.
- a bottle opener that pulls corks
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- 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
- To fill with cork.
- stuff with cork
- (transitive) To block (a street) illegally, to allow a protest or other activity to take place without traffic.
- To leave the cork in a bottle after attempting to uncork it.
- (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.
- (transitive) To seal or stop up, especially with a cork stopper.
- (snowboarding, skiing, skateboarding) To perform such a maneuver.
- close a bottle with a cork
adj
noun
- (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.
- 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.
- The cork oak, Quercus suber.
- the plug in the mouth of a bottle (especially a wine bottle)
- a small float usually made of cork; attached to a fishing line
- (botany) outer tissue of bark; a protective layer of dead cells
- outer bark of the cork oak; used for stoppers for bottles etc.
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adj
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- An implement for opening bottles that are sealed by a cork. Sometimes specifically such an implement that includes a screw-shaped part, or worm.
- The screw-shaped worm of a typical corkscrew.
- (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.
- a bottle opener that pulls corks