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screw picket

screw picket 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.

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

screw picket (plural screw pickets)

  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.
    Synonyms:
    corkscrew stake

Synonyms of screw picket

Forms of screw picket

pluralscrew pickets

Questions about screw picket

What does screw picket mean?
Screw picket 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 screw picket?
Screw picket is a noun.
What is the plural of screw picket?
The plural of screw picket is screw pickets.

Words near screw picket in the dictionary

  1. screw over
  2. screw palm
  3. screw palms
  4. screw peg
  5. screw pegs
  6. screw picket
  7. screw pickets
  8. screw pile
  9. screw piles
  10. screw pine
  11. screw pines

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