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a tiny spiral that exists solely to win a fight with a tree's afterthought.
means A spiral metal tool with a handle, designed to twist into a cork and pull it out of a bottle.
from A plain compound, joining "cork" (the bottle stopper, from Spanish "corcho," itself from Latin "cortex," meaning bark — the spongy bark of the cork oak) and "screw" (via Old French "escroue," possibly from Latin "scrofa," a sow, the threading likened to a pig's curly tail). The thing and its name both appear once bottled wine became common enough to need uncorking — a tool literally describing what it is: a screw for corks.
- patent date
- first patented in 1795 by Samuel Henshall
- physics trick
- converts twist into pull via the inclined plane
- collector craze
- rare antique ones fetch thousands at auction
- roller coasters
- the inverting loop borrowed its name and shape
- sommelier weapon
- the waiter's friend folds like a pocketknife
for instance
corkscrew maneuver red baron — manfred von richthofen's combat tactic in wwi, made famous in aerial dogfights 1916-1918