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Cunette :: Cunette (n.) A drain trench, in a ditch or moat; -- called also cuvette..

Moat :: Moat (n.) A deep trench around the rampart of a castle or other fortified place, sometimes filled with water; a ditch..

Vallation :: Vallation (n.) A rampart or intrenchment.

Pah :: Pah (n.) A kind of stockaded intrenchment.

Plough :: Plough (v. t.) To turn up, break up, or trench, with a plow; to till with, or as with, a plow; as, to plow the ground; to plow a field..

Retrenched :: Retrenched (imp. & p. p.) of Retrenc.

Cremaillere :: Cremaillere (n.) An indented or zigzaged line of intrenchment.

Trencher-man :: Trencher-man (n.) A feeder; a great eater; a gormandizer.

Furrow :: Furrow (n.) Any trench, channel, or groove, as in wood or metal; a wrinkle on the face; as, the furrows of age..

Satire :: Satire (a.) Keeness and severity of remark; caustic exposure to reprobation; trenchant wit; sarcasm.

Grip :: Grip (v. t.) To trench; to drain.

Sap :: Sap (n.) A narrow ditch or trench made from the foremost parallel toward the glacis or covert way of a besieged place by digging under cover of gabions, etc..

Intrench :: Intrench (v. t.) To surround with a trench or with intrenchments, as in fortification; to fortify with a ditch and parapet; as, the army intrenched their camp, or intrenched itself..

Retirade :: Retirade (n.) A kind of retrenchment, as in the body of a bastion, which may be disputed inch by inch after the defenses are dismantled. It usually consists of two faces which make a reentering angle..

Trenched :: Trenched (imp. & p. p.) of Trenc.

Intrenchment :: Intrenchment (n.) Any defense or protection.

Reverse :: Reverse (a.) The back side; as, the reverse of a drum or trench; the reverse of a medal or coin, that is, the side opposite to the obverse. See Obverse..

Untrenched :: Untrenched (a.) Being without trenches; whole; intact.

Parallel :: Parallel (n.) One of a series of long trenches constructed before a besieged fortress, by the besieging force, as a cover for troops supporting the attacking batteries. They are roughly parallel to the line of outer defenses of the fortress..

Trencher :: Trencher (v. t.) The table; hence, the pleasures of the table; food..

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