Ditch

Digging ditches has long been considered one of the most demanding forms of manual labor.

The truck careered off the road into a ditch.

Ditches continued to be employed as the sole defensive measure at many sites even after wall building began to emerge. For example, an immense ditch varying between 15 and 20 meters in width and marked by depths of 2.5 to 3.8 meters has recently been discovered in Hubei near Sui-chou.

You flung a ditch on my vision Of beauty, love and truth. O stony grey soil of Monaghan You burgled my bank of youth!

The original ditches were created by digging trenches, as boundaries and/or irrigation. But to the English, the ditch is the trench. Whereas in Ireland, the ditch is the raised bank of earth and the hedgerow on top. (As for the trench, where I come from that’s a sheugh).

Once the sun came out we ditched our rain-gear and started a campfire.

Why did you ditch your last boyfriend? He was so nice to you.

When the second engine failed, the pilot was forced to ditch; their last location was just south of the Azores.

The truant officer caught Louise ditching with her friends, and her parents were forced to pay a fine.

"No, instead, it just had enough power to transform me, overload, and force me to wait to change back! I had to ditch school!"

Enclosure led to fuller winter employment in hedging and ditching.

The soldiers ditched the tent to prevent flooding.

The engine was ditched and turned on its side.