"screw picket" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: screw pickets [plural]
Head templates: {{en-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. Categories (topical): Military Synonyms: corkscrew stake
    Sense id: en-screw_picket-en-noun-LLafBtAs Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Topics: government, military, politics, war

Inflected forms

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