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corkscrew stakes

corkscrew stakes is the plural of corkscrew stake.

Meaning of corkscrew stake

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

Questions about corkscrew stakes

What is corkscrew stakes the plural of?
Corkscrew stakes is the plural of corkscrew stake.

Words near corkscrew stakes in the dictionary

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  2. corkscrew physa
  3. corkscrew physae
  4. corkscrew physas
  5. corkscrew stake
  6. corkscrew stakes
  7. corkscrew vine
  8. corkscrew vines
  9. corkscrewed
  10. corkscrewing
  11. corkscrewings

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