The black objects, several feet long and narrow, like giant corkscrews, were augers, and after Lewis saluted he pointed to them.

First they augered a hole with something that looked like a giant corkscrew.

She held a giant corkscrew, at least two feet long, which she held in front of her, turning it with irregular motions as she advanced across the clock.

Mr. Childs was elaborating on the design of what he called a torqued building and Mr. Libeskind saw as a "giant corkscrew with a bird on top."

Behind it, a wrought-iron staircase rises in graceful swirls, like a giant corkscrew, until it finally disappears from view.

James asked, surveying the countours of the shore as we stood on the featureless expanse of ice under a bright sun with a Styrofoam bucket full of shiners, a handful of tip-ups, and a bright blue auger that resembled a giant corkscrew.

It was, in fact, lying on its side in the aisle ahead, looking like some giant corkscrew.

They had high spiked wheels, but their most complicated feature was a set of giant corkscrews, four on each side, attached to the car by intricate yet operational apparatus.

In elevation, they looked like two giant corkscrews with opposing threads; the left-hand ramp descending eleven full turns in a clockwise direction; the right-hand one, anticlockwise.

The power auger is essentially a giant corkscrew that twists dirt to the surface as it bores into the ground.