wire-cutting

What worried him was the wire-cutting; he could not but believe that it was an important part of the deep-laid labour conspiracy.

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Many units actually underwent basic training in France, learning from British and French instructors how to throw hand grenades, use machine guns, fire trench mortars and field artillery, do night signaling and wire-cutting, and prepare for gas attacks.

Castles of Steel Massie, Robert K., 1929- 2003

By the time Kelp and Stan caught up, the trio with the car had reached the chain-link fence marking the boundary of reservoir property, in which Tiny was in the process of wire-cutting a huge opening.

Drowned Hopes Westlake, Donald E. 1990

As a preliminary to the main attack, in order to enable field guns to be brought within effective range for wire-cutting, an attack was made upon the enemy's advanced works on the high ground about a couple of miles south-west of the town, at Hill 1070.

With the British Army in The Holy Land

Meanwhile, London and Irish troops moved towards the Kauwukah system, bringing forward their guns to within wire-cutting range.

With the British Army in The Holy Land

There was now another interval for bombardment, whilst the gunners were wire-cutting for the attack on the main positions.

The Fife and Forfar Yeomanry and 14th (F. & F. Yeo.) Battn. R.H. 1914-1919 David Douglas Ogilvie

We had exhibitions of wire-cutting and smoke screens, bangalore torpedoes, and many days of practising co-operation with aeroplanes.

The Fife and Forfar Yeomanry and 14th (F. & F. Yeo.) Battn. R.H. 1914-1919 David Douglas Ogilvie

These bayonets were exhibited in this country during the War as an evidence of German atrocity, but they were in reality intended for wire-cutting.

A Catalogue of Early Pennsylvania and Other Firearms and Edged Weapons at "Restless Oaks" Henry W. Shoemaker

In about forty minutes all the trenches opposite the 60th Division were captured, and the 74th completed their task only about twenty minutes later, one brigade having had some difficulty owing to incomplete wire-cutting.

The Fife and Forfar Yeomanry and 14th (F. & F. Yeo.) Battn. R.H. 1914-1919 David Douglas Ogilvie

He went into the barn, and came out wearing a pair of rubber boots, and carrying a pair of pincers -- the "wire-cutting things," as Freddie called them.

The Bobbsey Twins on a Houseboat Laura Lee Hope