Definition of ditch

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Ditch (v. t.) To dig a ditch or ditches in; to drain by a ditch or ditches; as, to ditch moist land..

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Lade :: Lade (n.) A passage for water; a ditch or drain.
Inditch :: Inditch (v. t.) To bury in, or cast into, a ditch..
Catchwater :: Catchwater (n.) A ditch or drain for catching water. See Catchdrain.
Ditch :: Ditch (v. t.) To throw into a ditch; as, the engine was ditched and turned on its side..
Delve :: Delve (v. t.) A place dug; a pit; a ditch; a den; a cave.
Fosse :: Fosse (n.) A ditch or moat.
Quickset :: Quickset (v. t.) To plant with living shrubs or trees for a hedge; as, to quickset a ditch..
Dike :: Dike (v. t.) To drain by a dike or ditch.
Relief :: Relief (n.) The height to which works are raised above the bottom of the ditch.
Dike :: Dike (n.) A ditch; a channel for water made by digging.
Ditched :: Ditched (imp. & p. p.) of Ditc.
Dike :: Dike (v. i.) To work as a ditcher; to dig.
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..
Poling :: Poling (n.) One of the poles or planks used in upholding the side earth in excavating a tunnel, ditch, etc..
Leap :: Leap (v. t.) To pass over by a leap or jump; as, to leap a wall, or a ditch..
Berme :: Berme (n.) A narrow shelf or path between the bottom of a parapet and the 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..
Arrentation :: Arrentation () A letting or renting, esp. a license to inclose land in a forest with a low hedge and a ditch, under a yearly rent..
Cunette :: Cunette (n.) A drain trench, in a ditch or moat; -- called also cuvette..
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..
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