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corkscrew

adjective as in spiral

noun as in kink

noun as in spiral

noun as in whorl

verb as in entwine

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Campione has become known for her unique specialism in dolls, doll houses, automata, birdcages and corkscrews.

From BBC

After drying during a series of slow corkscrews, the new magazine’s edges were chopped smooth by guillotines and emerged through an opening.

He and others allegedly tortured the man for two hours, inserting a corkscrew into his muscles, ripping it out and placing hot chiles in the wounds.

At the state’s Enterprise Services Surplus Operations retail store, in Tumwater, Thurston County, bargain hunters could choose from knives, corkscrews, pool cues and other items that have been confiscated by airport security.

Where shorter colonies spun around an axis, like a spiraling football, longer chains would buckle and coil like a corkscrew.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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