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Contravallation :: Contravallation (n.) A trench guarded with a parapet, constructed by besiegers, to secure themselves and check sallies of the besieged..

Traverse :: Traverse (a.) Lying across; being in a direction across something else; as, paths cut with traverse trenches..

Trench :: Trench (v. t.) An alley; a narrow path or walk cut through woods, shrubbery, or the like..

Encroach :: Encroach (v. i.) To enter by gradual steps or by stealth into the possessions or rights of another; to trespass; to intrude; to trench; -- commonly with on or upon; as, to encroach on a neighbor; to encroach on the highway..

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

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..

Coffer :: Coffer (n.) A trench dug in the bottom of a dry moat, and extending across it, to enable the besieged to defend it by a raking fire..

Intrenchment :: Intrenchment (n.) An encroachment or infringement.

Syncope :: Syncope (n.) An elision or retrenchment of one or more letters or syllables from the middle of a word; as, ne'er for never, ev'ry for every..

Return :: Return (n.) The turnings and windings of a trench or mine.

Underdrain :: Underdrain (n.) An underground drain or trench with openings through which the water may percolate from the soil or ground above.

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..

Trenchant :: Trenchant (v. t.) Fig.: Keen; biting; severe; as, trenchant wit..

Trench :: Trench (v. i.) To encroach; to intrench.

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

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

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

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

Ditch :: Ditch (n.) A trench made in the earth by digging, particularly a trench for draining wet land, for guarding or fencing inclosures, or for preventing an approach to a town or fortress. In the latter sense, it is called also a moat or a fosse..

Retrench :: Retrench (v. t.) To lessen; to abridge; to curtail; as, to retrench superfluities or expenses..

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