crater-spotted

Updated: May 29, 2025

All the barbed-wire entanglements in front of the first-line trenches appeared to be cut, mangled, twisted into balls, beaten back into the earth and exhumed again, leaving only a welt of crater-spotted ground in front of the chalky contour of the first-line trenches which had been mashed and crushed out of shape. "Yes, the Boche's first line looks rather messy," said the officer.

Frederick Palmer - My Second Year of the War