Definition of ditch

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Ditch (n.) Any long, narrow receptacle for water on the surface of the earth..

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Grip :: Grip (n.) A small ditch or furrow.
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..
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..
Moat :: Moat (n.) A deep trench around the rampart of a castle or other fortified place, sometimes filled with water; a ditch..
Water Celery :: Water celery () A very acrid herb (Ranunculus sceleratus) growing in ditches and wet places; -- called also cursed crowfoot.
Cunette :: Cunette (n.) A drain trench, in a ditch or moat; -- called also cuvette..
Ditch :: Ditch (n.) Any long, narrow receptacle for water on the surface of the earth..
Ditched :: Ditched (imp. & p. p.) of Ditc.
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..
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..
Trench :: Trench (v. t.) To cut furrows or ditches in; as, to trench land for the purpose of draining it..
Relief :: Relief (n.) The height to which works are raised above the bottom of the ditch.
Ridge :: Ridge (n.) A raised line or strip, as of ground thrown up by a plow or left between furrows or ditches, or as on the surface of metal, cloth, or bone, etc..
Fosse :: Fosse (n.) A ditch or moat.
Lade :: Lade (n.) A passage for water; a ditch or drain.
Trencher :: Trencher (v. t.) One who trenches; esp., one who cuts or digs ditches..
Dike :: Dike (n.) A ditch; a channel for water made by digging.
Ditching :: Ditching (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ditc.
Navigator :: Navigator (n.) One who navigates or sails; esp., one who direct the course of a ship, or one who is skillful in the art of navigation; also, a book which teaches the art of navigation; as, Bowditch's Navigator..
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..
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