entrenching shovelの例文

• From 1915, soldiers on both sides routinely sharpened the edges of entrenching shovels for use as weapons.
• Coming upon Private KAHOOHANOHANO's position, the friendly troops found eleven enemy soldiers lying dead before it and two in the emplacement itself, beaten to death with an entrenching shovel.
• Soviet Spetsnaz units were well trained in the use of the standard short-handled Russian entrenching shovel ( " saperka " ) as a weapon; by the nature of their missions, such tools were only rarely used for digging or entrenching positions.
• Being too long and heavy to be transported by individual soldiers, entrenching shovels and spades were normally carried in the supply carts ( logistics train ) of a military column; only pioneer or engineer troops typically carried spades or shovels as part of their individual equipment.