What is "entrenching"

Usage examples of "entrenching".

I eyed the entrenching tool lying close beside me, and swore under my breath.

When I opened them again, a bloody entrenching tool lay in the snow before me.

He pointed toward the bloody entrenching tool with the toe of one boot.

Baldr laughed merrily when I told him about the entrenching tool and the ragheads.

This burden consisted of a haversack, knapsack, blanket, shelter half, poncho, tent pegs, ridgepole, guy line, an extra pair of boots, changes of socks and underwear, a spare uniform, mess kit, shaving kit, and entrenching tool.

While an engineer outfit worked on the bunker, the junior officers in HqCo were detailed to less impressive excavations, swinging picks and entrenching tools alongside the enlisted men.

When he was a safe distance away, Nargi threw his entrenching tool down.

When Jones and I finished, we stuck our entrenching tools in the parapet and slid into the hole for a cigarette.

A shot of my platoon on a night patrol, slogging through a blackness so deep that each man must hold onto the handle of the entrenching tool on the back of the man in front of him.

Reggie snatched up the entrenching tool beside him and threw it at the rat.

He had just started on the other sleeve when first one man and then several began banging with entrenching tools on shell casings that had been hung like temple bells from tripods made of boards.

Any one of those shells could lay him open the way his entrenching tool had gutted the rat.

Nobody had smacked it with an entrenching tool: like the gassed soldier he'd seen, it had yellow foam on its whiskers.

He also remained con­vinced that entrenching in—or, more accurately, in front of—a town was a hell of a thing for a cavalryman to be doing.

Ramsay used an entrenching tool just as if he still was the sergeant he'd been not so long before.