intrenching tool

American  

Or entrenching tool

noun

1. a small, collapsible spade used by a soldier in the field for digging foxholes and the like.

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Example Sentences

Every man carried with him three empty sandbags and his intrenching tool.

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When used in this fashion the wooden handle is laid aside, the pick end becomes a handle, and the intrenching tool is used in the same manner as a trowel.

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I took my small intrenching tool, scraped away the dirt I had dug, and began cleaning away near the base of a big boulder.

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Intrenching tool again; then fire.

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The equipment of the Russian infantry soldier comprised at the outbreak of the Great War a rifle, a 299-mm. weapon with a quadrangular bayonet—which also was carried by noncommissioned officers—a waistbelt supporting a pouch for thirty rounds on each side of the clasp, an intrenching tool, a bandolier holding another thirty rounds carried over the left shoulder under the rolled greatcoat, and a reserve pouch also holding thirty rounds, which completed the full load of 120 rounds for each man, suspended by a strap over the right shoulder.

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