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What is the proper name for these?

Colt45

Lifer
The anti-boat and amphibious tank things, you put along a coastline on a front.


they're sort of a 3 dimensional X, like a jack or whatever it is called in the game jacks.

Always curious as to what they were called. Sort of a amphibious version of a dragon's tooth.
 
I don't think they are caltrops...


Main Entry: cal·trop
Pronunciation: 'kal-tr&p, 'kol-
Variant(s): also cal·throp /-thr&p/
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English caltrappe, alteration of calketrappe star thistle, from Old English calcatrippe, from Medieval Latin calcatrippa
1 a plural but singular or plural in construction : STAR THISTLE 1 b : PUNCTURE VINE; also : any of various related herbs (genera Tribulus and Kallstroemia) of the same family (Zygophyllaceae, the caltrop family)
2 : a device with four metal points so arranged that when any three are on the ground the fourth projects upward as a hazard to the hooves of horses or to pneumatic tires
 
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