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Trench

noun

1.

A ditch dug as a fortification having a parapet of the excavated earth.

2.

A long steep-sided depression in the ocean floor. Synonyms: deep, oceanic abyss.

3.

Any long ditch cut in the ground.

verb

(past & past part. trenched; pres. part. trenching)

1.

Impinge or infringe upon. Synonyms: encroach, entrench, impinge. "This matter entrenches on other domains"

2.

Fortify by surrounding with trenches.

3.

Cut or carve deeply into.

4.

Set, plant, or bury in a trench. "Trench the vegetables"

5.

Cut a trench in, as for drainage. Synonym: ditch. "Trench the fields"

6.

Dig a trench or trenches.

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"Trench" Quotes from Famous Books

... between stony hills of a depressing sterility, it came suddenly, at the bottom of a ravine, upon fresh green turf and thickets of willows, the environment of a small spring of clear water. There was a halt; all hands fell to digging a trench across the gully; when it had filled, the animals were allowed to drink; in an hour more they had closely cropped all the grass. This was using up time perilously, but it had to be done, ...

— Overland • John William De Forest

... assured the Boers would make their most determined stand; and the natural strength of the position, together with the urgent necessities of the case, made such an expectation more than merely reasonable. Yet to our delighted wonderment not a single trench, so far as we could see, had been dug, nor a solitary piece of artillery placed in position. From the top of a cinder heap a few farewell mauser bullets were fired at our scouts, and then as usual our foemen fled. Once in a Dutch deserted wayside house I picked up an "English ...

— With the Guards' Brigade from Bloemfontein to Koomati Poort and Back • Edward P. Lowry

... a trench, plants the nuts in it, covers them with leaves and then with an inch or ...

— Northern Nut Growers Report of the Proceedings at the Twenty-First Annual Meeting • Northern Nut Growers Association

... Yes, leaped! I had been dreaming that a surprise party of Germans were attacking the trench, and I was just rallying the men for a final dash when heavy guns began a bombardment which was unexpected.—Oh God! let me get up and over ...

— Man and Maid • Elinor Glyn

... lived at a down town club. In his old age the merchant, retired from business, lived in the house with another old man, an inventor. He could not rest although he had given up business with that end in view. Digging a trench in the lawn at the back of the house he with his friend spent his days trying to reduce the refuse of one of his factories to something having commercial value. Fires burned in the trench and at night the grim old man, hands covered ...

— Marching Men • Sherwood Anderson

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