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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Trench \Trench\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Trenched}; p. pr & vb n.
{Trenching}.] [OF. trenchier to cut, F. trancher; akin to Pr
trencar trenchar, Sp trinchar It trinciare of uncertain
origin.]
1. To cut; to form or shape by cutting; to make by incision,
hewing, or the like
The wide wound that the boar had trenched In his
soft flank. --Shak.
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 --Shak.
2. (Fort.) To fortify by cutting a ditch, and raising a
rampart or breastwork with the earth thrown out of the
ditch; to intrench. --Pope.
No more shall trenching war channel her fields.
--Shak.
3. To cut furrows or ditches in as to trench land for the
purpose of draining it
4. To dig or cultivate very deeply, usually by digging
parallel contiguous trenches in succession, filling each
from the next as to trench a garden for certain crops.
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