| 单词 | concertina wire |
| 释义 | > as lemmasconcertina wire 2. Originally Military. More fully concertina wire. Wire arranged in coils, used as an obstruction or defence. Cf. Danaert n. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > defence > defensive work(s) > barricade > [noun] > barbed wire wire entanglement1871 barbed wire1900 wire1915 concertina1917 apron1918 dannert wire1945 1917 Notes on Constr. & Equipm. Trenches (Army War College (U.S.)) 62 Extend the concertina and drop it over the pickets. 1918 B. Adams Nothing of Importance 113 They made up ‘concertina’ or ‘gooseberry’ wire by day and were out three or four hours every night putting it out. 1930 E. Blunden Poems 40 The sappers' waggons stowed with frames and concertina wire. 1972 Economist 9 Dec. 50/2 The formidable barrier of double steel cyclone fences, topped with barbed concertina wire. 2011 H. L. Barnes When we walked above Clouds xi. 82 Rolls of unused concertina sat rusting. < as lemmas |
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