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Definitions for: Trench
[n] a ditch dug as a fortification having a parapet of the excavated earth
[n] any long ditch cut in the ground
[n] a long steep-sided depression in the ocean floor
[v] dig a trench or trenches; "The National Guardsmen were sent out to trench"
[v] cut a trench in, as for drainage; "ditch the land to drain it"; "trench the fields"
[v] set, plant, or bury in a trench; "trench the fallen soldiers"; "trench the vegetables"
[v] cut or carve deeply into; "letters trenched into the stone"
[v] fortify by surrounding with trenches; "He trenched his military camp"
[v] impinge or infringe upon; "This impinges on my rights as an individual"; "This matter entrenches on other domains"
Webster (1913) Definition: 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.
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.) 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. [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.
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.) 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.
Synonyms: deep, ditch, encroach, entrench, impinge, oceanic abyss
See Also: approach trench, Atacama Trench, Bougainville Trench, communication trench, cut, depression, dig, dig out, ditch, entrenchment, excavate, fire trench, fort, fortify, fosse, furrow, hollow, intrenchment, Japan Trench, lay, moat, Nares Deep, natural depression, place, pose, position, put, set, slit trench, take advantage, trespass
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