TRENCH

trench

(noun) a ditch dug as a fortification having a parapet of the excavated earth

trench

(noun) any long ditch cut in the ground

trench, deep, oceanic abyss

(noun) a long steep-sided depression in the ocean floor

trench

(verb) dig a trench or trenches; “The National Guardsmen were sent out to trench”

trench, ditch

(verb) cut a trench in, as for drainage; “ditch the land to drain it”; “trench the fields”

trench

(verb) set, plant, or bury in a trench; “trench the fallen soldiers”; “trench the vegetables”

trench

(verb) cut or carve deeply into; “letters trenched into the stone”

trench

(verb) fortify by surrounding with trenches; “He trenched his military camp”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Noun

trench (plural trenches)

A long, narrow ditch or hole dug in the ground.

(military) A narrow excavation as used in warfare, as a cover for besieging or emplaced forces.

(archaeology) A pit, usually rectangular with smooth walls and floor, excavated during an archaeological investigation.

(informal) A trench coat.

Verb

trench (third-person singular simple present trenches, present participle trenching, simple past and past participle trenched)

(usually, followed by upon) To invade, especially with regard to the rights or the exclusive authority of another; to encroach.

(military, infantry) To excavate an elongated pit for protection of soldiers and or equipment, usually perpendicular to the line of sight toward the enemy.

(archaeology) To excavate an elongated and often narrow pit.

To have direction; to aim or tend.

To cut; to form or shape by cutting; to make by incision, hewing, etc.

To cut furrows or ditches in.

To dig or cultivate very deeply, usually by digging parallel contiguous trenches in succession, filling each from the next.

Proper noun

Trench

A surname.

A suburb of Telford, Telford and Wrekin borough, Shropshire, England (OS grid ref SJ6912).

Source: Wiktionary

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Trench, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Trenched; p. pr. & vb. n. Trenching.] Etym: [OF. trenchier to cut, F. trancher; akin to Pr. trencar, trenchar, Sp. trinchar, It. trinciare; of uncertain origin.]

1. To cut; to form or shape by cutting; to make by incision, hewing, or the like. The wide wound that the boar had trenched In his soft flank. Shak. This weak impress of love is as a figure Trenched in ice, which with an hour's heat Dissolves to water, and doth lose its form. Shak.

2. (Fort.)

Definition: To fortify by cutting a ditch, and raising a rampart or breastwork with the earth thrown out of the ditch; to intrench. Pope. No more shall trenching war channel her fields. Shak.

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

4. 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, v. i.

1. To encroach; to intrench. Does it not seem as if for a creature to challenge to itself a boundless attribute, were to trench upon the prerogative of the divine nature I. Taylor.

2. To have direction; to aim or tend. [R.] Bacon. To trench at, to make trenches against; to approach by trenches, as a town in besieging it. [Obs.] Like powerful armies, trenching at a town By slow and silent, but resistless, sap. Young.

Trench, n. Etym: [OE. trenche, F. tranchée. See Trench, v. t.]

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

2. An alley; a narrow path or walk cut through woods, shrubbery, or the like. [Obs.] In a trench, forth in the park, goeth she. Chaucer.

3. (Fort.)

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. To open the trenches (Mil.), to begin to dig or to form the lines of approach. Trench cavalier (Fort.), an elevation constructed (by a besieger) of gabions, fascines, earth, and the like, about half way up the glacis, in order to discover and enfilade the covered way.

– Trench plow, or Trench plough, a kind of plow for opening land to a greater depth than that of common furrows.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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