corkscrew stake

noun

Definitions

  1. A steel stake, used for barbed-wire defences, the lower half of which is…

    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.

    • 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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