transitive. To surround with a ditch; to cast a ditch about, around, esp. for the purpose of defence, fortification, or fixing a boundary.
| 单词 | θ161308 |
| 释义 | society > armed hostility > defence > defensive work(s) > earthwork or rampart > protect or surround with rampart [verb (transitive)] > protect or surround with trenches (6) ditch13.. transitive. To surround with a ditch; to cast a ditch about, around, esp. for the purpose of defence, fortification, or fixing a boundary. dikec1330 transitive. To provide with a dike or dikes, in various senses. To surround with dikes or trenches; to entrench. entrench1548 Military. transitive. To surround or fortify (an army, town, position, etc.) with trenches; to place within a trench. Frequently reflexive: to… trench1548 Military. To surround or fortify with a trench; to cast a trench about, around (a post, army, town, etc.); to entrench; also, to confine by means of… re-entrencha1595 transitive (frequently reflexive). To entrench again. Also intransitive with reflexive meaning. inditch1598 To enclose or surround with a ditch; to entrench. |
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