1. ditch - Noun
2. ditch - Verb
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.
Any long, narrow receptacle for water on the surface of the earth.
To dig a ditch or ditches in; to drain by a ditch or ditches; as, to ditch moist land.
To surround with a ditch.
To throw into a ditch; as, the engine was ditched and turned on its side.
To dig a ditch or ditches.
Source: Webster's dictionaryI have three phobias which, could I mute them, would make my life as slick as a sonnet, but as dull as ditch water: I hate to go to bed, I hate to get up, and I hate to be alone. Tallulah Bankhead
The young leading the young, is like the blind leading the blind they will both fall into the ditch. Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
In farm country, the plover has only two real enemies: the gully and the drainage ditch. Perhaps we shall one day find that these are our enemies, too. Aldo Leopold
When I am dead the world can be an ocean or a dried up ditch. Persian Proverb
He who is an ass and takes himself to be a stag finds his mistake when he comes to leap the ditch. Italian Proverb
In the ditch where water has flowed, it will flow again. Afghan Proverb