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Goudron :: Goudron (n.) a small fascine or fagot, steeped in wax, pitch, and glue, used in various ways, as for igniting buildings or works, or to light ditches and ramparts..

Water Celery :: Water celery () A very acrid herb (Ranunculus sceleratus) growing in ditches and wet places; -- called also cursed crowfoot.

Counterscarf :: Counterscarf (n.) The exterior slope or wall of the ditch; -- sometimes, the whole covered way, beyond the ditch, with its parapet and glacis; as, the enemy have lodged themselves on the counterscarp..

Ditcher :: Ditcher (n.) One who digs ditches.

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..

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..

Rhine :: Rhine (n.) A water course; a ditch.

Escalade :: Escalade (v. t.) A furious attack made by troops on a fortified place, in which ladders are used to pass a ditch or mount a rampart..

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..

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

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..

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

Relief :: Relief (n.) The height to which works are raised above the bottom of the ditch.

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..

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..

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

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

Moat :: Moat (n.) A deep trench around the rampart of a castle or other fortified place, sometimes filled with water; 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..

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