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trenching |
1 definition found 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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