intrenching tool

or entrenching tool

noun

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

Example Sentences

Therefore, never get separated from your intrenching tool.

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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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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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Intrenching tool again; then fire.

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