screw picket

English

Soldier carrying screw pickets during World War I

Noun

screw picket (plural screw pickets)

1. (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.

Synonyms

• corkscrew stake

Further reading

• screw picket on Wikipedia.Wikipedia