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Ditch   /dɪtʃ/   Listen
noun
Ditch  n.  (pl. ditches)  
1.
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.
2.
Any long, narrow receptacle for water on the surface of the earth.


verb
Ditch  v. t.  (past & past part. ditched; pres. part. ditching)  
1.
To dig a ditch or ditches in; to drain by a ditch or ditches; as, to ditch moist land.
2.
To surround with a ditch.
3.
To throw into a ditch; as, the engine was ditched and turned on its side.


Ditch  v. i.  To dig a ditch or ditches.





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"Ditch" Quotes from Famous Books



... well last week. With two stone less and a Calyx-eyed saddle-bar, he would have shown up even better. Whenever the barometer goes up two points Catawampus must be remembered. He was foaled in a ditch on the old North Road, somewhere between London and York, and having remained there or thereabouts for a month, may ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98, 1890.05.10 • Various
... wedding-day—who makes me an outcast—an object of scorn and disgrace! I would die first! I would face starvation and death in this great city. I know what I am saying. I would sweep a crossing like that beggar in rags yonder; I would lie down and die in a ditch sooner. Let me go, Miss Catheron, I beg of you; you only distress me unnecessarily. If you pleaded forever it could not avail. Give my love to Lady Helena; but I will never go back—I will never accept a farthing from Sir Victor Catheron. Don't come here more—don't let ...
— A Terrible Secret • May Agnes Fleming
... husband Jenny, rosy Jenny full of the ardor of life. For all my wisdom and grace of mind Gave her no delight at all, in very truth, But ever and anon she spoke of the giant strength Of Willard Shafer, and of his wonderful feat Of lifting a traction engine out of the ditch One time at Georgie Kirby's. So Jenny inherited my fortune and married Willard— That mount of brawn! ...
— Spoon River Anthology • Edgar Lee Masters
... through the field, I perceived something glancing before us: it was water—a wide drain or ditch, a zequia for irrigating the field. Like the magueys, it ...
— The War Trail - The Hunt of the Wild Horse • Mayne Reid
... feet sloped away to a basin out of which bubbled a spring. It furnished the drinking supply of the Midas, and he knew every inch of the crevice it had worn down the mountain, so felt his way cautiously along. At the bottom of the hill where it ran out upon the level it had worn a considerable ditch through the soil, and into this he crawled on hands and knees. His bulging clothes handicapped him so that his gait was slow and awkward, while the rain had swelled the streamlet till it trickled over his calves and up to his wrists, chilling him so that his muscles cramped and his ...
— The Spoilers • Rex Beach


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