Trench

The trenches for installing the underground cables were dug with a trencher.

The milling action of the bucket line enables the trencher to cut through difficult materials, such as stone rubble and brick filling, and to leave a good trench with clean side walls.

Figure 114 shows how pegs driven into the bottom of a foundation trench to establish a horizontal level for the concreter to work to, can be levelled with a boning rod held upright on the pages at either end of the trench.

The soldiers in the trenches rely on logistical support.

Following in the tank's wake, the cameliers reached the first line of Turkish trenches, where they confronted a handful of Ottoman soldiers too wounded to retreat.

I was the first person in my high school to wear a trench and fedora constantly, and Ben was one of the first to wear a black trench.

A classic trench can work in any kind of weather and goes well with almost anything.

Shee is the Judge, Thou Executioner, Or if thou needs would'st trench upon her power, Thou mightst have yet enjoy'd thy crueltie, With some more thrift, and more varietie.

Does it not seem as if for a creature to challenge to itself a boundless attribute, were to trench upon the prerogative of the divine nature?

He could make what laws he pleased, as long as those laws did not trench upon property rights.

[O]ur ideas, therefore, must trench upon the province of tactics.

No more shall trenching war channel her fields.

Advanc'd upon the field there stood a mound Of earth congested, wall'd , and trench'd around

the reason and consequence thereof may trench to point of estate

The wide wound that the boar had trenched / In his soft flank.

This weak impress of love is as a figure / Trenched in ice, which with an hour's heat Dissolves to water, and doth lose its form.

to trench land for the purpose of draining it

to trench a garden for certain crops