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(1) - Trench (v. t.) 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. (2) - Trench (v. t.) An alley; a narrow path or walk cut through woods, shrubbery, or the like. (3) - Trench (v. t.) A long, narrow cut in the earth; a ditch; as, a trench for draining land. (4) - Trench (v. i.) To have direction; to aim or tend. (5) - Trench (v. i.) To encroach; to intrench. (6) - Trench (v. t.) 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. (7) - Trench (v. t.) To cut furrows or ditches in; as, to trench land for the purpose of draining it. (8) - Trench (v. t.) To fortify by cutting a ditch, and raising a rampart or breastwork with the earth thrown out of the ditch; to intrench. (9) - Trench (v. t.) To cut; to form or shape by cutting; to make by incision, hewing, or the like. |