English Dictionary

corkscrew stake

名詞

(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.

日本語の意味

（軍事用語）有刺鉄線防衛用に用いられる鋼製の杭。下部が螺旋状（コークスクリュー状）になっており、地面にねじ込むことが可能なデザインとなっている。

The engineer drove a corkscrew stake into the frozen ground to anchor the front line's barbed-wire defenses.

工兵は前線の有刺鉄線防御を固定するために、下半分がらせん状になった鋼の杭を凍った地面にねじ込んだ。

意味（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.

So far we had done nothing except file past a tool-dump, where men had collected picks, shovels, coils of wire and corkscrew stakes.

corkscrew stakes （ plural ）