Word Finder - trenches

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A long, narrow ditch or hole dug in the ground.

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A narrow excavation as used in warfare, as a cover for besieging or emplaced forces.

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A pit, usually rectangular with smooth walls and floor, excavated during an archaeological investigation.

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A trench coat.

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(usually followed by upon) To invade, especially with regard to the rights or the exclusive authority of another; to encroach.

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(infantry) To excavate an elongated pit for protection of soldiers and or equipment, usually perpendicular to the line of sight toward the enemy.

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To excavate an elongated and often narrow pit.

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To have direction; to aim or tend.

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To cut; to form or shape by cutting; to make by incision, hewing, etc.

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To cut furrows or ditches in.

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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.

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to trench a garden for certain crops

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The front line of any field of endeavor, as the line of scrimmage in American football, patrol duty for a policeman.

In the second case all roots that have struck downwards into a cold uncongenial subsoil must be pruned off if they cannot be turned in a lateral direction, and all the lateral ones that have become coarse and fibreless must also be shortened back by means of a clean cut with a sharp knife, while a compost of rich loamy soil with a little bone-meal, and leaf-mould or old manure, should be filled into the trenches from which the old sterile soil has been taken.

Part of the Agora was laid open to Humann, but his trenches have fallen in.

Some people dug trenches while others placed pipes in the trenches and covered them again with dirt.

These maps are then overprinted with trenches or other detail.

At dawn the Highland Brigade of the 2nd Division struck the enemys trenches, and carried them after a brief struggle.

When the location of the deposit has been determined approximately, further search is made by trenches or pits or borings through the surface soil.

At a given moment the trenches, which at many points were but a few yards from those occupied by the Turks, would be vacated by detachments, which by that hour would have shrunk to mere handfuls of men.

Trenches of great size also occur south of the equator.

The town, which existed in the middle of the 13th century, was burnt down in 1864 during the assault by the Prussians upon the Diippler trenches.

The permanent works were supplemented before the siege began by a prodigious development of semi-permanent works and trenches.

Every knoll had its redoubt or battery, and the trenches were arranged line behind line, to give supporting, cross and enfilade fire in every direction.

Behind these was the " Chinese Wall," and behind that more batteries and trenches.

On the north-west front, 203-Metre Hill, in advance of the main line, was occupied by strong semi-permanent works, with trenches and redoubts to either flank; and 174-Metre Hill, 1500 yds.

On the 12th, the Japanese took the trenches between the Waterworks Redoubt and Erh-Lung, and cut the watersupply.

At " G " they took a portion of the Chinese Wall and lost it again, other trenches with a cross fire being behind.

This charge, in which many of the "Rough Riders" were killed or wounded, drove the Spaniards from the trenches and opened the way to the surrender of Santiago.

And in the World War, while optical instruments of this kind were elaborated and improved, the periscope as such came into use for the infantry garrisoning trenches.

Many gardeners are still afraid to disturb an unsuitable subsoil, but experienced growers have proved that by bringing it up to the surface and placing plenty of manure in the bottoms of the various trenches, the very best results are attained in the course of a season or so.

Celery in trenches should receive the final covering for the winter, which is best done by leaves or light stable litter; in the latitude of New York it should not be less than 12 in.

For removing rock in reducing a surface to a level, or in quarrying, cuts were made with a pick, forming straight trenches, and the blocks were then broken out between these.

The strong fortifications which, with ramparts, bastions and wet ditches, formerly entirely surrounded the city, were removed on the north and west sides in 1895-1896, the trenches filled in, and the area thus freed laid out on a spacious plan.

North of Tolmino the Italians were still in the positions they had occupied early in the campaign, among the mountains on the left bank of the Isonzo, with comparatively little room between the trenches and the river.

Definite orders had been given both by Cadorna and by Capello that immediately upon the opening of the enemy's bombardment the Italian artillery should reply with a fire of " counter-preparation " upon the enemy's trenches and zones of concentration, and that they should lay down a violent barrage as soon as there were signs of movement.

The enemy's attack had already developed when the Italian guns opened on his trenches.

Some of the troops fought with all their old stubbornness, but others gave themselves up or abandoned the trenches when the enemy columns came out of the mist.

Roads had been built and gun positions prepared, and reservoirs made for water; trenches had been dug and strong redoubts constructed at various important points, though the defensive system was not completely finished when the enemy attacked at Caporetto.

The attacking troops, both gunners and infantry, found their task unexpectedly lightened by the absence of a heavy return fire upon their batteries, trenches, and zones of concentration.

In copperplate printing the whole of the plate is first inked, the flat surface is then cleaned, leaving ink in the incisions or trenches cut by the engraver, so that, when dampened paper is laid over the plate and pressure is brought to bear, the paper sinks into the incisions and takes up the ink, which makes an impression in line or lines on the paper.

The sets after having been sprouted, as above, are planted out in January in trenches 2 ft.

On the 9th however, with the aid of a Montenegrin battery that was got up to very close range, the trenches were carried after fierce handto-hand fighting.

The Turkish position on the Tarabosh consisted of four lines of trenches, some 30 to 40 yd.

It does not follow, however, from the fact that only stone tools were found at the bottom of the trenches that the monument was constructed when metal tools were unknown, because none of the Stonehenge tools have the characteristic forms of Neolithic implements, so that they might have been specially improvised for the purpose of roughly hewing these huge stones, for which, indeed, they were really better adapted, and more easily procured, than the early and very costly metal tools of the Bronze Age.

The range of the Caucasus, like that of the Pyrenees, maintains for considerable distances a high average elevation, and is not cleft by deep trenches, forming natural passes across the range, such as are common in the Alps.

Southwards too, immediately under the snows, we find ` crystalline schists,' smooth grassy heights, separated by shallow trenches, which form the lesser undulations of the three basins, the drei Langenhochthdler Imeritiens of Dr Radde.

As a matter of fact, the foundations of most dams are carried down in vertical trenches, the lower part only being in sound materials so that actual separation almost corresponding with the hypothetical On Some Disregarded Points in the Stability of Masonry Dams, Drapers' Company Research Memoir (London, 1904).

An implement, sometimes propelled by steam, known as the draining plough, can be used for opening the trenches.

The Romans were careful to keep their arable lands dry by means of open trenches or covered drains filled with stones or twigs.

But such a large number of his troops perished in the trenches by a pestilential disorder, that he found himself too weak to march on Paris, and took his way to Calais across Picardy, hoping, as it seems, to lure the French to battle by exposing his small army to attack.

The siege of Sevastopol was in progress, and he had his full share of the arduous work in the trenches.

In March 1915 he was wounded while visiting the front trenches, and was placed on the retired list in Oct.

The king, on the Swedish right wing, succeeded in driving the enemy from the trenches and capturing his cannon.

These acted, however, impartially; and if thousands of British and French soldiers perished of cold and disease in the trenches before Sevastopol, the tracks leading from the centre of Russia into the Crimea were marked by the bones of Russian dead.

I do have to say, I don't necessarily agree with my guys in the trenches that this psychic business is crap.

We had a kind of mutual armistice with the Germans in the trenches in front of us.

The square barrows were also unusual in that they were constructed by digging four straight trenches, which were not joined at the corners.

During the night the enemy made several minor counterattacks down the communications trenches, particularly on the left where " C " Company was.

The garden was used as an ammunition dump and slit trenches were dug.

Trenches and side routes through caves are scattered throughout the level, allowing multiple entryways into the enemy's stronghold.

Faulkner uses Owen's iconic poetry to flesh out the bones of three bodies exhumed from the earth of the erstwhile trenches.

All four trenches revealed deep, bleached or leached soil horizons below the modern topsoil.