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Line :: Line (n.) A trench or rampart.

Trench :: Trench (v. t.) A long, narrow cut in the earth; a ditch; as, a trench for draining land..

Trencher-man :: Trencher-man (n.) A table companion; a trencher mate.

Retrench :: Retrench (v. t.) To confine; to limit; to restrict.

Razee :: Razee (v. t.) To cut down to a less number of decks, and thus to an inferior rate or class, as a ship; hence, to prune or abridge by cutting off or retrenching parts; as, to razee a book, or an article..

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

Trench-plough :: Trench-plough (v. t.) To plow with deep furrows, for the purpose of loosening the land to a greater depth than usual..

Bate :: Bate (v. i.) To remit or retrench a part; -- with of.

Correct :: Correct (v. t.) To remove or retrench the faults or errors of; to amend; to set right; as, to correct the proof (that is, to mark upon the margin the changes to be made, or to make in the type the changes so marked)..

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

Trencher-man :: Trencher-man (n.) A cook.

Violate :: Violate (v. t.) To do violence to, as to anything that should be held sacred or respected; to profane; to desecrate; to break forcibly; to trench upon; to infringe..

Retrench :: Retrench (v. t.) To furnish with a retrenchment; as, to retrench bastions..

Approach :: Approach (v. i.) The advanced works, trenches, or covered roads made by besiegers in their advances toward a fortress or military post..

Intrenching :: Intrenching (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Intrenc.

Trench :: Trench (v. t.) To cut furrows or ditches in; as, to trench land for the purpose of draining it..

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

Trench :: Trench (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..

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..

Trenchmore :: Trenchmore (v. i.) To dance the trenchmore.

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