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Trencher-men :: Trencher-men (pl. ) of Trencher-ma.

Blindage :: Blindage (n.) A cover or protection for an advanced trench or approach, formed of fascines and earth supported by a framework..

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..

Trencher-man :: Trencher-man (n.) A feeder; a great eater; a gormandizer.

Contravallation :: Contravallation (n.) A trench guarded with a parapet, constructed by besiegers, to secure themselves and check sallies of the besieged..

Boyau :: Boyau (n.) A winding or zigzag trench forming a path or communication from one siegework to another, to a magazine, etc..

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

Trencher :: Trencher (v. t.) One who trenches; esp., one who cuts or digs ditches..

Retrench :: Retrench (v. t.) To furnish with a retrenchment; as, to retrench bastions..

Correct :: Correct (v. t.) To remove or retrench the faults or errors of; to amend; to set right; as, to correct the proof (that is, to mark upon the margin the changes to be made, or to make in the type the changes so marked)..

Pioneer :: Pioneer (n.) A soldier detailed or employed to form roads, dig trenches, and make bridges, as an army advances..

Sap :: Sap (n.) A narrow ditch or trench made from the foremost parallel toward the glacis or covert way of a besieged place by digging under cover of gabions, etc..

Trench :: Trench (v. i.) To encroach; to intrench.

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..

Trencher-man :: Trencher-man (n.) A cook.

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..

Retrenched :: Retrenched (imp. & p. p.) of Retrenc.

Trenchmore :: Trenchmore (v. i.) To dance the trenchmore.

Untrenched :: Untrenched (a.) Being without trenches; whole; intact.

Pah :: Pah (n.) A kind of stockaded intrenchment.

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