noun
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A trench; a long, shallow indentation, as for irrigation or drainage.
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Digging ditches has long been considered one of the most demanding forms of manual labor.
verb
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To discard or abandon.
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Once the sun came out we ditched our rain-gear and started a campfire.
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To deliberately crash-land an airplane on water.
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When the second engine failed, the pilot was forced to ditch; their last location was just south of the Azores.
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To deliberately not attend classes; to play hookey.
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The truant officer caught Louise ditching with her friends, and her parents were forced to pay a fine.
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To dig ditches.
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Enclosure led to fuller winter employment in hedging and ditching.
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To dig ditches around.
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The soldiers ditched the tent to prevent flooding.
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To throw into a ditch.
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The engine was ditched and turned on its side.
Examples of ditch in a Sentence
Would he ditch her and run off with the other woman?
We all ran down this ditch to help and then I saw it was Bobbie.
How do you ditch a motor home in the middle of Kansas?
Turning the horse sharply, he again jumped the ditch, and deferentially addressed the horseman with the white plumes, evidently suggesting that he should do the same.
Dean figured Fred was making a last ditch effort for a dispensation from his public duty.
Let's pull this relationship out of the ditch and get it back on the road.
Beyond the ditch are banks generally laid with turf.
She moved off the road into the ditch.
He'll ditch the motor home and change his plans, if he has any.
If he moves the jack, but does not carry it through to the ditch, he scores two.
If she's not dead in a ditch somewhere.
He expected her to ditch him and run, but the car was tagged and could be tracked.
Where do you ditch it?
At present fragments of the walls exist here and there, with the great ditch about them, while elsewhere a line of mounds marks their course.
Round the wall is a deep double ditch, a dwarf wall running along its centre.
The ditch ran northward to Tabarca and southward to Tina.
It was Timokhin's company, which alone had maintained its order in the wood and, having lain in ambush in a ditch, now attacked the French unexpectedly.
The fill of the ditch was mostly boulder clay wash, with a few small brick sherds.
His headless corpse was later found in a ditch.
Via a shady business contact, he approached the Cosa Nostra in New York in a last ditch attempt to save himself.
A ring ditch and evidence for ridge and furrow cultivation were also detected.
In sites like Avebury the ditch is on the inside indicating the purpose was not primarily defensive.
On the southern bank of the Brook, there is a fairly dense thicket, through which a pronounced ditch runs to the stream.
Still - I was there in the ditch, up against a tree, with a severely dented backside.
For seven years he worked as a vine planter, irrigation ditch digger, cow puncher, and smallholder in the new Western state.
Backfilling of ditch F288F appears to post-date the disuse of the cemetery, since the ditch in disuse of the cemetery, since the ditch in disuse is not cut by burials.
They also started digging a ditch around the building.
The motte consists of a central grass covered mound with an encircling ditch and bank, bailey and outer rampart.
This road is built along the site of a Roman defensive ditch situated just north of Hadrian's Wall.
Geophysical surveys have traced the causewayed ditch for a distance of about 80m in a generally south-westerly direction.
Behind our trench there were three cottages just across the road & shallow ditch ran from our trench to the road.
Now proceed across the field to a crossing point over a muddy ditch.
These experiments were designed specifically to examine the nature of the typical domestic enclosure ditch of the Iron Age period.
The north/south ditch is then seen continue further northwards before linking with another large ditch running east/west.
Linked to this roadside ditch, a series of parallel ditches were also found, running downslope toward the river.
The 2 arched brick bridges spanning the ditch were built around 1890 to replace the earlier drawbridges.
The erosion was perhaps aggravated by the summer dryness preventing sufficient plant colonization to protect the ditch faces from winter rains.
Little more, however, can be said about the ditch which was only partially excavated.
Second shot must be watched as a ditch crosses the fairway before the green.
A tiny fragment of amber came to light during the analysis of a ditch soil sample.
The area has been transformed into a lovely woodland glade, exposing the obvious ditch and mound formation of the round barrow.
The ditch of Hut '2 ' was probably a drainage gully around the outside.
Even if the high waters then gush over the new bank, there is a drainage ditch behind it to catch the overflow.
Similar results were produced by the excavation of an inner ditch terminal at the southern henge.
The flat bottom of the central henge 's outer ditch was cleaned out at least once.
Some of us saw a hornet patrolling a water filled ditch much like a dragonfly.
The next minute the ladder gave way and Macpherson fell insensible in the ditch.
After a while the boy lies almost lifeless in a ditch.
Or ditch all health-related sentiments and bring posh loungewear for the cigar room and cocktail bar.
White quartz pebbles were found on or near the bottom of all the ditch segments.