One of these items called the Model 1910 was an early American example, showing their evolution from shovels. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name these pieces of military equipment, which include the MPL-50. Despite their principal function of digging, they were sometimes used as combat weapons with sharpened edges.
ANSWER: entrenching tools [or e-tools; or entrenchment tools; accept entrenching shovels or entrenching spades or entrenchment shovels or entrenchment spades; accept intrenching in place of “entrenching”; prompt on spades or trowels or shovels]
[10e] Later British entrenching tools could often be combined with these weapons. During World War I, the “knife” design of these firearm attachments became more popular compared with their “sword” design.
ANSWER: bayonets
[10m] Germany’s World War I version of an entrenching tool, called a Feldspaten, was similar to the MPL-50. Feldspatens were manufactured by this Austrian weapons manufacturer known for their easy-to-use handguns.
ANSWER: Glock GmbH
<Benjamin McAvoy-Bickford, European History>