Trench ¹

Definition: To cut; to form or shape by cutting; to make by incision, hewing, or the like.

Trench ²

Definition: To fortify by cutting a ditch, and raising a rampart or breastwork with the earth thrown out of the ditch; to intrench.

Trench ³

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

Trench ⁴

Definition: 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.

Trench ⁵

Definition: To encroach; to intrench.

Trench ⁶

Definition: To have direction; to aim or tend.

Trench ⁷

Definition: A long, narrow cut in the earth; a ditch; as, a trench for draining land.

Trench ⁸

Definition: An alley; a narrow path or walk cut through woods, shrubbery, or the like.

Trench ⁹

Definition: 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.

trench ¹⁰

Definition: a ditch dug as a fortification having a parapet of the excavated earth

trench ¹¹

Definition: any long ditch cut in the ground

trench ¹²

Definition: a long steep-sided depression in the ocean floor

trench ¹³

Definition: dig a trench or trenches; "The National Guardsmen were sent out to trench"

trench ¹⁴

Definition: cut a trench in, as for drainage; "ditch the land to drain it"; "trench the fields"

trench ¹⁵

Definition: set, plant, or bury in a trench; "trench the fallen soldiers"; "trench the vegetables"

trench ¹⁶

Definition: cut or carve deeply into; "letters trenched into the stone"

trench ¹⁷

Definition: fortify by surrounding with trenches; "He trenched his military camp"

trench ¹⁸

Definition: impinge or infringe upon; "This impinges on my rights as an individual"; "This matter entrenches on other domains"