Danaertn.
/ˈdanət/ Spring steel wire, usually barbed and in a spiral form, used in anti-tank and other forms of defensive warfare. Usually attributive, as dannert wire.
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wire entanglement1871
barbed wire1900
wire1915
concertina1917
apron1918
dannert wire1945
1945 Penguin New Writing 26 31 Pillboxes had already been put up and a dannert wire apron fence encircled the pier arcade.
1948 Hansard CCCCXLV. 1535 There is concealed dannert wire in the grass around the camps.
1960 C. Fitz Gibbon When Kissing had to Stop xi. 200 A score of bell-tents, surrounded by coils of dannert.
1961 Wire Industry Encycl. Handbk. 333/1 Danaert wire, the circles of barbed wire widely used in wartime for barbed wire entanglements. Also known as concertina wire.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online September 2018).
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