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TRENCHING SPADE

Dictionary entry overview: What does trenching spade mean?

• TRENCHING SPADE (noun)
The noun TRENCHING SPADE has 1 sense:

1. a hand shovel carried by infantrymen for digging trenches

Familiarity information: TRENCHING SPADE used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• TRENCHING SPADE (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

A hand shovel carried by infantrymen for digging trenches

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

entrenching tool; trenching spade

Hypernyms ("trenching spade" is a kind of...):

hand shovel (a shovel that is operated by hand)

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