Trench

·vi To have direction; to aim or tend.

II. Trench ·vi To Encroach; to Intrench.

III. Trench ·vt A long, narrow cut in the earth; a ditch; as, a trench for draining land.

IV. Trench ·vt An alley; a narrow path or walk cut through woods, shrubbery, or the like.

V. Trench ·vt To cut furrows or ditches in; as, to trench land for the purpose of draining it.

VI. Trench ·vt To Cut; to form or shape by cutting; to make by incision, hewing, or the like.

VII. Trench ·vt To fortify by cutting a ditch, and raising a rampart or breastwork with the earth thrown out of the ditch; to Intrench.

VIII. Trench ·vt 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.

IX. Trench ·vt 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.