'Trench' definitions:

Definition of 'trench'

(from WordNet)
noun
A ditch dug as a fortification having a parapet of the excavated earth
noun
A long steep-sided depression in the ocean floor [syn: trench, deep, oceanic abyss]
noun
Any long ditch cut in the ground
verb
Impinge or infringe upon; "This impinges on my rights as an individual"; "This matter entrenches on other domains" [syn: impinge, encroach, entrench, trench]
verb
Fortify by surrounding with trenches; "He trenched his military camp"
verb
Cut or carve deeply into; "letters trenched into the stone"
verb
Set, plant, or bury in a trench; "trench the fallen soldiers"; "trench the vegetables"
verb
Cut a trench in, as for drainage; "ditch the land to drain it"; "trench the fields" [syn: trench, ditch]
verb
Dig a trench or trenches; "The National Guardsmen were sent out to trench"

Definition of 'Trench'

From: GCIDE
  • Trench \Trench\, v. i.
  • 1. To encroach; to intrench. [1913 Webster]
  • 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. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. To have direction; to aim or tend. [R.] --Bacon. [1913 Webster]
  • To trench at, to make trenches against; to approach by trenches, as a town in besieging it. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
  • Like powerful armies, trenching at a town By slow and silent, but resistless, sap. --Young. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Trench'

From: GCIDE
  • Trench \Trench\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Trenched; p. pr. & vb. n. Trenching.] [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. [1913 Webster]
  • The wide wound that the boar had trenched In his soft flank. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • 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. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. (Fort.) To fortify by cutting a ditch, and raising a rampart or breastwork with the earth thrown out of the ditch; to intrench. --Pope. [1913 Webster]
  • No more shall trenching war channel her fields. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. To cut furrows or ditches in; as, to trench land for the purpose of draining it. [1913 Webster]
  • 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. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Trench'

From: GCIDE
  • Trench \Trench\, n. [OE. trenche, F. tranch['e]e. See Trench, v. t.]
  • 1. A long, narrow cut in the earth; a ditch; as, a trench for draining land. --Mortimer. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. An alley; a narrow path or walk cut through woods, shrubbery, or the like. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
  • In a trench, forth in the park, goeth she. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. (Fort.) 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. [1913 Webster]
  • 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. [1913 Webster]

Synonyms of 'trench'

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