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单词 inditch
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inditchv.

Forms: Also 1500s endich, 1600s indich.
Etymology: < in- prefix1 or in- prefix3 + ditch n.1
Obsolete.
1. transitive. To cast into or bury in (or as in) a ditch.
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the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > cover [verb (transitive)] > cover over or up > under the ground or bury > specific
inditch1597
immud1611
muda1616
sand1632
1597 Bp. J. Hall Virgidemiarum: 1st 3 Bks. iii. ii. 55 Wert thou inditched in great secrecie, Where as no passenger might curse thy dust, Nor dogs sepulchrall sate their gnawing lust.
1630 J. Taylor Wks. i. 64/2 One was cast dead into the Thames..drawne with a Boat and a rope downe some part of the Riuer, and dragged to shore and indiched.
2. To enclose or surround with a ditch; to entrench.
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the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > enclosing or enclosure > enclose [verb (transitive)] > with or as with a moat or ditch
inditch1598
bemoat1605
society > armed hostility > defence > defensive work(s) > earthwork or rampart > protect or surround with rampart [verb (transitive)] > protect or surround with trenches
ditch13..
dikec1330
entrench1548
trench1548
re-entrencha1595
inditch1598
1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes To dike, to ditch or moate about, to make trenches or dikes, to endich.
1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 212 The Danes..raised as it is thought certaine trenches; whereof one is called Maumbury being an acre indiched.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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