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.
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Further reading
Screw picket on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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