| 单词 | communication trench |
| 释义 | > as lemmascommunication trench communication trench n. Military a subsidiary trench forming a means of communication between two different positions. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > defence > defensive work(s) > earthwork or rampart > [noun] > trench > types of trench transverse1704 front trench1847 communicating trench1857 shelter-trench1870 firing bay1885 communication trench1903 fire trench1907 funk-hole1914 support trench1914 foxhole1915 fire bay1916 slit-trench1942 1903 B. F. S. Baden-Powell War in Pract. v. 188 Communication trenches may be made to connect important works, or groups of works, with the central base. 1914 Illustr. London News 24 Oct. 571 At all points subject to shell-fire access to the firing-line from behind is provided by communication-trenches. 1938 ‘G. Orwell’ in J. E. Lewis Mammoth Bk. War Correspondents (2001) 191 The next Fascist ‘position’..lay two hundred yards to the right of the other, joined to it by a communication-trench. 2003 H. J. van de Ven War & Nationalism China vi. 216 Usually only a single line of trenches had been dug,..without communication trenches to the rear. < as lemmas |
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