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

Trenching :: Trenching (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Trenc.

Bate :: Bate (v. t.) To lessen by retrenching, deducting, or reducing; to abate; to beat down; to lower..

Trenchant :: Trenchant (v. t.) Fitted to trench or cut; gutting; sharp.

Drain :: Drain (n.) That means of which anything is drained; a channel; a trench; a water course; a sewer; a sink.

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

Coffer :: Coffer (n.) A trench dug in the bottom of a dry moat, and extending across it, to enable the besieged to defend it by a raking fire..

Bate :: Bate (v. i.) To remit or retrench a part; -- with of.

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..

Trenchand :: Trenchand (a.) Trenchant.

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..

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

Trench :: Trench (v. t.) To cut furrows or ditches in; as, to trench land for the purpose of draining it..

Cunette :: Cunette (n.) A drain trench, in a ditch or moat; -- called also cuvette..

Trenched :: Trenched (imp. & p. p.) of Trenc.

Intrench :: Intrench (v. t.) To surround with a trench or with intrenchments, as in fortification; to fortify with a ditch and parapet; as, the army intrenched their camp, or intrenched itself..

Trenchantly :: Trenchantly (adv.) In a trenchant, or sharp, manner; sharply; severely..

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..

Intrenching :: Intrenching (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Intrenc.

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

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