ditch
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1. ditch - Noun
2. ditch - Verb
Meaning
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.
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I 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.
The young leading the young, is like the blind leading the blind they will both fall into the ditch.
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.
When I am dead the world can be an ocean or a dried up ditch.
He who is an ass and takes himself to be a stag finds his mistake when he comes to leap the ditch.
In the ditch where water has flowed, it will flow again.