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Dike :: Dike (v. t.) To drain by a dike or ditch.

Assibilation :: Assibilation (n.) Change of a non-sibilant letter to a sibilant, as of -tion to -shun, duke to ditch..

Ridge :: Ridge (n.) A raised line or strip, as of ground thrown up by a plow or left between furrows or ditches, or as on the surface of metal, cloth, or bone, etc..

Fagot :: Fagot (n.) A bundle of sticks, twigs, or small branches of trees, used for fuel, for raising batteries, filling ditches, or other purposes in fortification; a fascine..

Intrenchment :: Intrenchment (n.) Any defensive work consisting of at least a trench or ditch and a parapet made from the earth thrown up in making such a ditch.

Graffage :: Graffage (n.) The scarp of a ditch or moat.

Levy :: Levy (v. t.) To erect, build, or set up; to make or construct; to raise or cast up; as, to levy a mill, dike, ditch, a nuisance, etc..

Dig :: Dig (v. t.) To hollow out, as a well; to form, as a ditch, by removing earth; to excavate; as, to dig a ditch or a well..

Ditch :: Ditch (v. t.) To dig a ditch or ditches in; to drain by a ditch or ditches; as, to ditch moist land..

Rhine :: Rhine (n.) A water course; a ditch.

Ditches :: Ditches (pl. ) of Ditc.

Fosse :: Fosse (n.) A ditch or moat.

Arrentation :: Arrentation () A letting or renting, esp. a license to inclose land in a forest with a low hedge and a ditch, under a yearly rent..

Sillon :: Sillon (n.) A work raised in the middle of a wide ditch, to defend it..

Lade :: Lade (n.) A passage for water; a ditch or drain.

Xanthidium :: Xanthidium (n.) A genus of minute unicellular algae of the desmids. These algae have a rounded shape and are armed with glochidiate or branched aculei. Several species occur in ditches, and others are found fossil in flint or hornstone..

Fortify :: Fortify (v. t.) To strengthen and secure by forts or batteries, or by surrounding with a wall or ditch or other military works; to render defensible against an attack by hostile forces..

Fosseway :: Fosseway (n.) One of the great military roads constructed by the Romans in England and other parts of Europe; -- so called from the fosse or ditch on each side for keeping it dry.

Vanfess :: Vanfess (n.) A ditch on the outside of the counterscarp, usually full of water..

Batardeau :: Batardeau (n.) A wall built across the ditch of a fortification, with a sluice gate to regulate the height of water in the ditch on both sides of the wall..

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