At the bottom of that pit, they had placed long, sharpened wooden stakes.

Several of the huge walls of kerosene-soaked tyres, razor wire and sharpened wooden spears were left unguarded.

She gathered up the stakes and arrows-specialarrows, with no stone arrowheads, only sharpened wooden ends-andresharpened them to fine points.

He'd soaked all his quarrels in garlic water and tucked six roughly sharpened wooden stakes into his belt alongside dangling skins of water.

A dozen pistols, three rifles and seven sharpened wooden spears thrust into the Jeep at Sister, and an equal number of weapons threatened Paul.

Sharpened wooden spikes were fitted to the outside of the fortification, just below the level of the sentries' walkway.