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Trench :: Trench (v. t.) An alley; a narrow path or walk cut through woods, shrubbery, or the like..

Chase :: Chase (n.) A groove, or channel, as in the face of a wall; a trench, as for the reception of drain tile..

Retrench :: Retrench (v. t.) To lessen; to abridge; to curtail; as, to retrench superfluities or expenses..

Trench :: Trench (v. t.) To cut; to form or shape by cutting; to make by incision, hewing, or the like..

Intrench :: Intrench (v. t.) To cut in; to furrow; to make trenches in or upon.

Trench :: Trench (v. t.) To dig or cultivate very deeply, usually by digging parallel contiguous trenches in succession, filling each from the next; as, to trench a garden for certain crops..

Retrench :: Retrench (v. t.) To cut off; to pare away.

Trench :: 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..

Furrow :: Furrow (n.) A trench in the earth made by, or as by, a plow..

Intrenchment :: Intrenchment (n.) Any defensive work consisting of at least a trench or ditch and a parapet made from the earth thrown up in making such a ditch.

Trench-plough :: Trench-plough (v. t.) To plow with deep furrows, for the purpose of loosening the land to a greater depth than usual..

Intrenchant :: Intrenchant (a.) Not to be gashed or marked with furrows.

Antestature :: Antestature (n.) A small intrenchment or work of palisades, or of sacks of earth..

Underdrain :: Underdrain (n.) An underground drain or trench with openings through which the water may percolate from the soil or ground above.

Trench-plow :: Trench-plow (v. t.) Alt. of Trench-ploug.

Retrenchment :: Retrenchment (n.) A work constructed within another, to prolong the defense of the position when the enemy has gained possession of the outer work; or to protect the defenders till they can retreat or obtain terms for a capitulation..

Leat :: Leat (n.) An artificial water trench, esp. one to or from a mill..

Vallation :: Vallation (n.) A rampart or intrenchment.

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.) A long, narrow cut in the earth; a ditch; as, a trench for draining land..

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