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Slit Trench
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Slit Trench 

a short trench dug 1.5–2 m deep and designed to provide shelter during a nuclear explosion, an artillery bombardment, an air raid, or a tank attack. A slit trench may adjoin a fire trench and may be open at the top or have a splinter-proof covering made of wood and sod.
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Then we entered Brville, taking slit trenches from retreating Germans.
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It was a big improvement on the slit trenches we had been used to.
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