WordNet
communication trench
n. a trench that provides protected passage between the rear and front lines of a defensive position [syn: approach trench]
Usage examples of "communication trench".
He winked at Shaw and set off to the communication trench that led back to the rear area.
Sure enough, he jerked his head toward the opening to a communication trench.
And he jumped down into the communication trench and ran down it to the bend in the passage.
They turned into a communication trench which led forward to an observation post: a walled pit with sandbagged slots looking down the steep and bare hillside to a flat valley, almost a thousand feet below.
More of the enemy were rushing up the communication trench from the rear to repel them.