corkscrew

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UK /ˈkɔːk.skɹuː/ US /ˈkɔɹk.skɹu/nounverbadj

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What is the meaning of 'corkscrewed' in this sentence?

I strongly suspect (from what Small has dropped, and from what we have corkscrewed out of him) that those letters were not destroyed.