intrenching tool

or entrenching tool

noun

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

Thus the innocent foreign-born readers are led like sheep to the shambles, and Privilege gains another intrenching-tool.

Conditions may require men to work in pairs, one firing while the other uses his intrenching tool.

Keep your intrenching tool free from rust, being especially careful that no rust gets into the sockets.

The intrenching-tool is a miniature pickax, one end of which resembles a large-bladed hoe with a sharpened and tempered edge.

As soon as each soldier was in place he began burrowing with his intrenching tool.

April 19, 2024tortuous

[tawr-choo-uhs ]

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