Trenchname

• 1

  A suburb of Telford, Telford and Wrekin borough, Shropshire, England (OS grid ref SJ6912).

• 2

  A habitational surname.

trenchnoun/ˈtɹɛnt͡ʃ/

• 1

  A long, narrow ditch or hole in the ground; either manmade, or formed naturally through erosion or tectonic plate movement.

  • The trenches for installing the underground cables were dug with a trencher.
  • The milling action of the bucket line enables the trencher to cut through difficult materials, such as stone rubble and brick filling, and to leave a good trench with clean side walls.
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  governmentmilitarypoliticsA narrow excavation as used in warfare, as a cover for besieging or emplaced forces.

  • The soldiers in the trenches rely on logistical support.
  • Following in the tank's wake, the cameliers reached the first line of Turkish trenches, where they confronted a handful of Ottoman soldiers too wounded to retreat.
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  archaeologyhistoryhuman-sciencesA pit, usually rectangular with smooth walls and floor, excavated during an archaeological investigation.

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  informalA trench coat.

  • I was the first person in my high school to wear a trench and fedora constantly, and Ben was one of the first to wear a black trench.
  • A classic trench can work in any kind of weather and goes well with almost anything.

trenchverb/ˈtɹɛnt͡ʃ/

• 1

  To invade, especially with regard to the rights or the exclusive authority of another; to encroach.

  • Shee is the Judge, Thou Executioner, Or if thou needs would'st trench upon her power, Thou mightst have yet enjoy'd thy crueltie, With some more thrift, and more varietie.
  • Does it not seem as if for a creature to challenge to itself a boundless attribute, were to trench upon the prerogative of the divine nature?
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  governmentmilitarypoliticsTo excavate an elongated pit for protection of soldiers and or equipment, usually perpendicular to the line of sight toward the enemy.

  • No more shall trenching war channel her fields.
  • Advanc'd upon the field there stood a mound Of earth congested, wall'd , and trench'd around
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  archaeologyhistoryhuman-sciencesTo excavate an elongated and often narrow pit.

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  To have direction; to aim or tend.

  • the reason and consequence thereof may trench to point of estate
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  To cut; to form or shape by cutting; to make by incision, hewing, etc.

  • The wide wound that the boar had trenched / In his soft flank.
  • This weak impress of love is as a figure / Trenched in ice, which with an hour's heat Dissolves to water, and doth lose its form.
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  To cut furrows or ditches in.

  • to trench land for the purpose of draining it
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  To dig or cultivate very deeply, usually by digging parallel contiguous trenches in succession, filling each from the next.

  • to trench a garden for certain crops