corkscrew stake

English

Soldier carrying corkscrew stakes during World War I

corkscrew stake (plural corkscrew stakes)

(military) A steel stake, used for barbed-wire defences, the lower half of which is corkscrew-shaped, to enable it to be screwed into the ground.
- 1930, Siegfried Sassoon, The Complete Memoirs of George Sherston: Memoirs of an Infantry Officer, London: Faber and Faber, page 337 (Faber Paper 1972 edition):
  So far we had done nothing except file past a tool-dump, where men had collected picks, shovels, coils of wire and corkscrew stakes.

单词	corkscrew stake
释义	corkscrew stake English Soldier carrying corkscrew stakes during World War I Noun corkscrew stake (plural corkscrew stakes) (military) A steel stake, used for barbed-wire defences, the lower half of which is corkscrew-shaped, to enable it to be screwed into the ground. 1930, Siegfried Sassoon, The Complete Memoirs of George Sherston: Memoirs of an Infantry Officer, London: Faber and Faber, page 337 (Faber Paper 1972 edition): So far we had done nothing except file past a tool-dump, where men had collected picks, shovels, coils of wire and corkscrew stakes. Synonyms screw picket Further reading Screw picket on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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