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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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