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Meaning Of Trench
v. t.
To cut; to form or shape by cutting; to make by
incision, hewing, or the like.
v. t.
To fortify by cutting a ditch, and raising a rampart or
breastwork with the earth thrown out of the ditch; to intrench.
v. t.
To cut furrows or ditches in; as, to trench land for the
purpose of draining it.
v. t.
To dig or cultivate very deeply, usually by digging
parallel contiguous trenches in succession, filling each from the next;
as, to trench a garden for certain crops.
v. i.
To encroach; to intrench.
v. i.
To have direction; to aim or tend.
v. t.
A long, narrow cut in the earth; a ditch; as, a trench
for draining land.
v. t.
An alley; a narrow path or walk cut through woods,
shrubbery, or the like.
v. t.
An excavation made during a siege, for the purpose of
covering the troops as they advance toward the besieged place. The term
includes the parallels and the approaches.