Definition of trench

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Trench (v. t.) To fortify by cutting a ditch, and raising a rampart or breastwork with the earth thrown out of the ditch; to intrench..

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Cremaillere :: Cremaillere (n.) An indented or zigzaged line of intrenchment.
Intrenchment :: Intrenchment (n.) The act of intrenching or the state of being intrenched.
Trencher :: Trencher (v. t.) A large wooden plate or platter, as for table use..
Retrench :: Retrench (v. t.) To cut off; to pare away.
Palanka :: Palanka (n.) A camp permanently intrenched, attached to Turkish frontier fortresses..
Trencher :: Trencher (v. t.) The table; hence, the pleasures of the table; food..
Drain :: Drain (n.) That means of which anything is drained; a channel; a trench; a water course; a sewer; a sink.
Trench :: Trench (v. t.) An alley; a narrow path or walk cut through woods, shrubbery, or the like..
Intrenched :: Intrenched (imp. & p. p.) of Intrenc.
Trencher-man :: Trencher-man (n.) A cook.
Trenched :: Trenched (imp. & p. p.) of Trenc.
Trenchant :: Trenchant (v. t.) Fig.: Keen; biting; severe; as, trenchant wit..
Pah :: Pah (n.) A kind of stockaded intrenchment.
Ditch :: Ditch (n.) A trench made in the earth by digging, particularly a trench for draining wet land, for guarding or fencing inclosures, or for preventing an approach to a town or fortress. In the latter sense, it is called also a moat or a fosse..
Violate :: Violate (v. t.) To do violence to, as to anything that should be held sacred or respected; to profane; to desecrate; to break forcibly; to trench upon; to infringe..
Approach :: Approach (v. i.) The advanced works, trenches, or covered roads made by besiegers in their advances toward a fortress or military post..
Trencher-men :: Trencher-men (pl. ) of Trencher-ma.
Work :: Work (n.) Structures in civil, military, or naval engineering, as docks, bridges, embankments, trenches, fortifications, and the like; also, the structures and grounds of a manufacturing establishment; as, iron works; locomotive works; gas works..
Trench :: Trench (v. t.) A long, narrow cut in the earth; a ditch; as, a trench for draining land..
Razee :: Razee (v. t.) To cut down to a less number of decks, and thus to an inferior rate or class, as a ship; hence, to prune or abridge by cutting off or retrenching parts; as, to razee a book, or an article..
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