corkscrew – English noun declension

English noun forms of corkscrew

Noun: corkscrew
Singularcorkscrew
Pluralcorkscrews

Sample Sentences

  • I opened the wine with a corkscrew.
  • There stood presented to his sight, Or seem'd to stand, the God of wine, […] This hand a Cork-scrue did contain, And that a Bottle of Champaign. [1720, Nicholas Amhurst, “The Bottle-Scrue”, in Poems on Several Occasions, page 113:]
  • A corkscrew is designed so that when it is turned it creates effectively a helical undulation pushing it into the cork, whereas rotation in the opposite sense pulls it out. [1999, James Lighthill, “Biofluiddynamics: A Survey”, in Contemporary Mathematics, volume 141, page 11:]
  • A two-prong or ah-so corkscrew with sheath. [2006, Costas Katsigris, Chris Thomas, The Bar and Beverage Book, 4th edition, page 152:]
  • A bubble rising rapidly in water describes a spiral closely resembling a corkscrew. [1898, Herbert Spencer, First Principles of a New System of Philosophy:]
  • […] the immovable McCoy let fly his most miraculous punch of the evening, of his lives, a world-beater of a right corkscrew, a punch years in the windup […] [2002, Darin Strauss, The Real McCoy, →ISBN, page 42:]
  • A corkscrew has a 90° turn just prior to the loop and a 90° turn just afterward. [1987 September 26, Tim Cole, “Killer Coasters”, in Popular Mechanics, page 56:]

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker-
3. Proto-Indo-European *(s)kert-
4. Proto-Indo-European *(s)kort-ek-sder.
5. Latin cortexder.?
6. ▲
7. Latin cortexder.
8. Mozarabic *kórčo, *kórčeder.?
9. Spanish corchobor.
10. Middle Dutch curcder.
11. Middle English cork
12. English cork
13. Proto-Indo-European *(s)krebʰ-der.?
14. Latin scrōfa
15. Old French escrouebor.
16. ▲
17. Old French escruveinflu.
18. Middle English scrue
19. English screw
20. English corkscrew
21. From cork + screw.

Verbs referencing "corkscrew"

Dutch Nouns kurkentrekker, Irish Nouns corcscriú.