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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.

Scarp :: Scarp (n.) The slope of the ditch nearest the parapet; the escarp.

Delf :: Delf (n.) A mine; a quarry; a pit dug; a ditch.

Leap :: Leap (v. t.) To cause to leap; as, to leap a horse across a ditch..

Sow :: Sow (n.) A kind of covered shed, formerly used by besiegers in filling up and passing the ditch of a besieged place, sapping and mining the wall, or the like..

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..

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

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..

Inditch :: Inditch (v. t.) To bury in, or cast into, a ditch..

Demilune :: Demilune (n.) A work constructed beyond the main ditch of a fortress, and in front of the curtain between two bastions, intended to defend the curtain; a ravelin. See Ravelin..

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

Ditch :: Ditch (v. t.) To surround with a ditch.

Diker :: Diker (n.) A ditcher.

Dich :: Dich (v. i.) To ditch.

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..

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..

Dike :: Dike (n.) A ditch; a channel for water made by digging.

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..

Hylodes :: Hylodes (n.) The piping frog (Hyla Pickeringii), a small American tree frog, which in early spring, while breeding in swamps and ditches, sings with high, shrill, but musical, notes..

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