trenching spade

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   a hand shovel carried by infantrymen for digging trenches

   Synonymsentrenching tool

   Broaderhand shovel

Questions about trenching spade

What does trenching spade mean?

trenching spade means "a hand shovel carried by infantrymen for digging trenches".

What is another word for trenching spade?

Close synonyms include entrenching tool. 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 trenching spade a common word?

trenching spade 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.