entrenching tool

noun

1. intrenching tool.

Word History and Origins

Origin of entrenching tool¹

First recorded in 1765–75

Example Sentences

You are trying to destroy enemy fighters with rifles and hand grenades and entrenching tools at close range.

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“For the rest of the night I was batting hand grenades away with my entrenching tool while firing my rifle at them,” he said in 2001.

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On a recent afternoon, Johnson trekked through the woods toward the site with a bucket in one hand, a battered US army entrenching tool in the other.

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He dug on his knees with an entrenching tool while the man beside him threw up in the sand before lying down with his helmet across his face and fainting.

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With his entrenching tool, which weighed 5 pounds, he began digging a hole in the earth.

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