Ditch

Definitions

1. The city of Calcutta.
   derogatory, obsolete, slang
2. A trench; a long, shallow indentation, as for irrigation or drainage.
3. A raised bank of earth and the hedgerow on top.
   Ireland

Equivalents

Examples

“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).”

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