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15 wordies list
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zzyyxx (452 words)
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(n): that portion of a corkscrew consisting of the helix, or screw.
The newsletter of the Canadian Corkscrew Collectors' Club (CCCC) is named the Quarterly Worme. What, you don't collect antique and modern collect corkscrews? I own ca. 350 and counting....
"The wonderful thing about collecting a thing, or things, is that any day you might find in your travels or peregrinations a cheap and beautiful example of the very item(s) that is/are the object of your endless quest." -- Victor Call
"WORM, is used in the artillery for the same purpose as the wad-hock in small arms, to extract any wad or a piece of cartridge that may remain in the piece after it is fired." (citation in list description)
Mark 9:46 - Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.
A dance done usually by drunk people, performed by lying on one's back on the dance floor and squirmming and wiggling like a worm.
It costs me never a stab nor squirm
To tread by chance upon a worm.
"Aha, my little dear," I say,
"Your clan will pay me back one day."
--Dorothy Parker