trench

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a long, narrow ditch dug in the ground

   Workers dug a trench for the new water pipe.

2. 2
   noun

   a protected military ditch from which soldiers fight or take cover

   The soldiers sheltered in the trench during the bombardment.

3. 3
   noun

   a long, very deep depression in the ocean floor

   The research vessel mapped the edge of the ocean trench.

4. 4
   verb

   to dig a trench in or around a place

   The crew will trench the field before laying the drainage pipes.

Common collocations

• trench mortar Noun + noun

From Middle English trenche, borrowed from Old French trenche, 'a cut or ditch,' from trenchier, 'to cut.' It shares this cutting ancestry with tranche and trenchant.

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