entrenching tool

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   a hand shovel carried by infantrymen for digging trenches

   Synonymstrenching spade

   Broaderhand shovel

Questions about entrenching tool

What does entrenching tool mean?

entrenching tool means "a hand shovel carried by infantrymen for digging trenches".

What is another word for entrenching tool?

Close synonyms include trenching spade. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is entrenching tool a common word?

entrenching tool is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.