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To cut; to form or shape by cutting; to make by
incision, hewing, or the like. |
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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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To cut furrows or ditches in; as, to trench land for the
purpose of draining it. |
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To dig or cultivate very deeply, usually by digging
parallel contiguous trenches in succession, filling each from the next;
as, to trench a garden for certain crops. |
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To encroach; to intrench. |
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To have direction; to aim or tend. |
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A long, narrow cut in the earth; a ditch; as, a trench
for draining land. |
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An alley; a narrow path or walk cut through woods,
shrubbery, or the like. |
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An excavation made during a siege, for the purpose of
covering the troops as they advance toward the besieged place. The term
includes the parallels and the approaches. |
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