a. Like a corkscrew, spiral.
1847. Bristol Times, 17 April, 3/5. Some incoherent and corkscrewy kind of burthen about ‘twisting, and twisting, and twisted.’
1886. Pall Mall Gaz., 15 Dec., 4/2. The bird [snipe] … then enters upon that corkscrewy flight, which is his chief charm as an object of sport.
1890. Chamb. Jrnl., 5 April, 221/1. A ‘corkscrewy’ ringlet dangling at each cheek.
