Definition of ditch

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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..

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Ditcher :: Ditcher (n.) One who digs ditches.
Blind :: Blind (a.) Having such a state or condition as a thing would have to a person who is blind; not well marked or easily discernible; hidden; unseen; concealed; as, a blind path; a blind ditch..
Batardeau :: Batardeau (n.) A wall built across the ditch of a fortification, with a sluice gate to regulate the height of water in the ditch on both sides of the wall..
Poling :: Poling (n.) One of the poles or planks used in upholding the side earth in excavating a tunnel, ditch, etc..
Ditches :: Ditches (pl. ) of Ditc.
Underditch :: Underditch (v. t.) To dig an underground ditches in, so as to drain the surface; to underdrain; as, to underditch a field or a farm..
Ha-ha :: Ha-ha (n.) A sunk fence; a fence, wall, or ditch, not visible till one is close upon it..
Graffage :: Graffage (n.) The scarp of a ditch or moat.
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..
Assibilation :: Assibilation (n.) Change of a non-sibilant letter to a sibilant, as of -tion to -shun, duke to ditch..
Fagot :: Fagot (n.) A bundle of sticks, twigs, or small branches of trees, used for fuel, for raising batteries, filling ditches, or other purposes in fortification; a fascine..
Rhine :: Rhine (n.) A water course; a ditch.
Xanthidium :: Xanthidium (n.) A genus of minute unicellular algae of the desmids. These algae have a rounded shape and are armed with glochidiate or branched aculei. Several species occur in ditches, and others are found fossil in flint or hornstone..
Envelop :: Envelop (n.) A work of earth, in the form of a single parapet or of a small rampart. It is sometimes raised in the ditch and sometimes beyond it..
Trencher :: Trencher (v. t.) One who trenches; esp., one who cuts or digs ditches..
Barbacan :: Barbacan (n.) A tower or advanced work defending the entrance to a castle or city, as at a gate or bridge. It was often large and strong, having a ditch and drawbridge of its own..
Dike :: Dike (n.) A ditch; a channel for water made by digging.
Dike :: Dike (v. t.) To drain by a dike or ditch.
Tenaillon :: Tenaillon (n.) A work constructed on each side of the ravelins, to increase their strength, procure additional ground beyond the ditch, or cover the shoulders of the bastions..
Siren :: Siren (n.) Any long, slender amphibian of the genus Siren or family Sirenidae, destitute of hind legs and pelvis, and having permanent external gills as well as lungs. They inhabit the swamps, lagoons, and ditches of the Southern United States. The more common species (Siren lacertina) is dull lead-gray in color, and becames two feet long..
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