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

Poling :: Poling (n.) One of the poles or planks used in upholding the side earth in excavating a tunnel, ditch, etc..

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..

Fort :: Fort (n.) A strong or fortified place; usually, a small fortified place, occupied only by troops, surrounded with a ditch, rampart, and parapet, or with palisades, stockades, or other means of defense; a fortification..

Ditch :: Ditch (v. t.) To throw into a ditch; as, the engine was ditched and turned on its side..

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

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

Dike :: Dike (v. i.) To work as a ditcher; to dig.

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..

Landmark :: Landmark (n.) A mark to designate the boundary of land; any , mark or fixed object (as a marked tree, a stone, a ditch, or a heap of stones) by which the limits of a farm, a town, or other portion of territory may be known and preserved..

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

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..

Fosse :: Fosse (n.) A ditch or moat.

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..

Tenaille :: Tenaille (n.) An outwork in the main ditch, in front of the curtain, between two bastions. See Illust. of Ravelin..

Sillon :: Sillon (n.) A work raised in the middle of a wide ditch, to defend it..

Delve :: Delve (v. t.) A place dug; a pit; a ditch; a den; a cave.

Jump :: "Jump (v. t.) To cause to jump; as, he jumped his horse across the ditch..

Berme :: Berme (n.) A narrow shelf or path between the bottom of a parapet and the ditch.

Fascine :: Fascine (n.) A cylindrical bundle of small sticks of wood, bound together, used in raising batteries, filling ditches, strengthening ramparts, and making parapets; also in revetments for river banks, and in mats for dams, jetties, etc..

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