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trenching, vbl. n.|ˈtrɛn(t)ʃɪŋ|
[f. trench v. + -ing1.]
a. The action of the verb trench, in its various senses.
1543–4Act 35 Hen. VIII, c. 10 Any digging trenching or breakinge of suche Grounde. 1632Sanderson Serm. (1657) I. 372 Sufficient to acquit..the Constitutions from that trenching upon Christian liberty, wherewith they are charged. 1799J. Robertson Agric. Perth 278 The trenching of land in the open fields..is not so expensive as is generally supposed. 1899Westm. Gaz. 20 Nov. 7/3 Commandant Cronje had marked each step of his advance on the town by elaborate trenching.
b. attrib. and Comb., as trenching-fork, trenching-knife, trenching-plough, trenching-spade, trenching-system, trenching-tool; trenching-plane, a grooving-plane.
1875Encycl. Brit. I. 335/2 To have those patches of ground..which are missed in ploughing, gone over with the *trenching-fork.
c1510Kalender of Sheph. E v, A great bochery, where as Yreful men and women were thorowe persyd with *trenchyng knyues.
1859F. S. Cooper Ironmongers' Catal. 134 *Trenching Plane.
1669Worlidge Syst. Agric. (1681) 231 The *Trenching-Plough or Coulter is a certain Instrument used in Meadow or Pasture-ground, to cut out the sides of Trenches, Carriages, or Drains. 1733W. Ellis Chiltern & Vale Farm. 326 The Trenching Plough, is either a Wheel or Foot-plough.
1866Harper's Mag. Oct. 636/1 Rough-boarded warehouses crammed with..gun-carriages,..*trenching spades, and axes. 1904Daily News 18 Aug. 8/1 Parties of soldiers..were going about the field with trenching spades burying the dead.
1779in 9th Rep. R. Comm. Hist. MSS. App. iii. 148 in Parl. Papers 1910 (Cd. 5038) XXXV. 675 A large quantity of *trenching tools, etc., had been put on board. 1809A. Henry Trav. & Adventures Canada xv. 130 The most common way of taking the beaver is that of breaking up its house, which is done with trenching-tools. 1979R. Blythe View in Winter iv. 172 They was now shellin' like anything... I got my trenchin'-tool out.
1780A. Young Tour Irel. I. 17 Great quantities of potatoes planted in the *trenching way. |