I’d throw mine in the clink if I could.
A book reviewer regretted the author was not able to “winkle” an anecdote out of a famous raconteur.
A ground combat squad “winkled” the snipers out of their fortified hidey-holes.
And the Welsh street vendors were selling mussels, winkles, and eels. It turns out a winkle is a kind of bashful barnacle that has to be pushed or tweezed or squeezed out of its crevice. "Winkled into" a tight spot doesn't appear. Just "winkled out of."