Such a hollow dug out to hold or conduct water; a ditch, n.1

A small open furrow or ditch, esp. for carrying off water; a trench, drain.

An excavation narrow in proportion to its length; a long and narrow hollow dug in the ground; the trench or fosse of a fortification, etc.

A long, narrow hollow or excavation, esp. used to hold or conduct water; a ditch, a trench. Also: a ha-ha. Now historical.

A deep furrow made to remove surface water from the ground and improve drainage.

A drain; a channel or run of water.

In extended sense: a trench, drain; spec. (more particularly water-furrow, n.), the depression lying between two ridges of cultivated land and…

A ditch, a trench.

An artificial watercourse for draining marshy land and carrying off surface water into a river or the sea. Also water-sewer.

A small ditch or trench.

A small gutter for draining off water; a drain, a sewer, a trench.

A narrow ditch or drain. (Cf. grindlet, n.)

A furrow, trench, ditch, drain, etc.

A gutter, drain, sewer.

A furrow between the ridges or strips of land in a crop field. Obsolete.

gen. A long, narrow ditch or furrow cut out of the ground. Also figurative.

A ditch, dike, or drain; also, a cart rut. ? Obsolete.

A channel by which liquid is drained or gradually carried off; esp. an artificial conduit or channel for carrying off water, sewage, etc.

A ditch; = fossé, n.2

An artificially cut or dug channel for water; a trench; Agriculture a trench made for draining a field; = through, n.3 2. Cf. thorough drain, n. Now…

A deep furrow used for conducting drainage water from a field or other piece of ground, a water-furrow; (also) a furrow between ridges in a…

The action or process of digging a pit, hole, or trench in the ground; (also) a pit, ditch, etc., so dug.

A trench, channel, watercourse (natural or artificial).

= syre, n.

A ditch; a moat; Also (in Holland) a street on either side of a canal.

Chiefly British regional. A trench or artificial ditch dug for draining or irrigation. Now rare.

(a) chiefly North American a boundary or barrier in the form of a water-filled ditch (now rare); (b) a fence built in, over, or adjacent to water…

A particular length of dyke. Cf. rood, n. 6.

A puddle, pool, or ditch.

= grip, n.2

A trench.

A large open ditch or drain.

= water-furrow, n. Obsolete.

English regional. A ditch or drain. Obsolete.

a shallow trench or foot drain (foot drain n.).

English regional. An artificially cut or dug channel for water; a trench, a ditch; = thorough, n.1 1. Obsolete. rare.

†(a) a ditch that runs parallel to and drains the run-off from an irrigation channel (obsolete); (b) a narrow drainage ditch filled with rubble or…

A small or miniature trench.

An enclosure or barrier (e.g. a hedge, wall, railing, palisade, etc.) along the boundary of a field, park, yard or any place which it is desired…

Any one of the trenches used in ‘floating’ land.

a narrow, shallow ditch or channel serving as a drain, esp. in wetland.

see quot. 1805.

an open channel to carry off surface water.

A small trench, ditch, open drain; = grip, n.2 1 (dialect) †Also Military a trench (obsolete).

A surface hollow, excavation, or deep depression in the ground; a ditch.

A trench made for draining a field; = thorough, n.1 1.

Something that yawns; a wide ditch.

Chiefly in Mexico and the south-western United States: a main or central irrigation channel; (also) a main or central open drain. Cf. acequia, n.

Chiefly in the Fens. A channel for drainage or irrigation. Obsolete.

In agricultural drainage: a main drain.

(see quot.), hence furrow-drain v.