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corkscrew stake

corkscrew stake noun: 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.

corkscrew stake: a steel stake, used for barbed-wire defences, the lower half of which is corkscrew-shaped, to...
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Noun

corkscrew stake (plural corkscrew stakes)

  1. 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.1930, Siegfried Sassoon, The Complete Memoirs of George Sherston: Memoirs of an Infantry Officer, London: Faber and Faber, page 337 (Faber Paper 1972 edition)
    Synonyms:
    screw picket

Synonyms of corkscrew stake

Forms of corkscrew stake

pluralcorkscrew stakes

Questions about corkscrew stake

What does corkscrew stake mean?
Corkscrew stake means 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.
What part of speech is corkscrew stake?
Corkscrew stake is a noun.
What is the plural of corkscrew stake?
The plural of corkscrew stake is corkscrew stakes.

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  5. corkscrew physas
  6. corkscrew stake
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  9. corkscrew vines
  10. corkscrewed
  11. corkscrewing

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