- a long, narrow excavation in the ground, the earth from which is thrown up in front to serve as a shelter from enemy fire or attack.
- a system of such excavations, with their embankments, etc.
- a deep furrow, ditch, or cut.
- a long, steep-sided, narrow depression in the ocean floor.
- to surround or fortify with trenches; entrench.
- to cut a trench in.
- to set or place in a trench.
- to form (a furrow, ditch, etc.) by cutting into or through something.
- to make a cut in; cut into; carve.
- to dig a trench.
- trench on / upon
- to encroach or infringe on.
- to come close to; verge on: His remarks were trenching on poor taste.
- English clergyman and scholar, born in Ireland.
- a deep ditch or furrow
- a ditch dug as a fortification, having a parapet of the excavated earth
- to make a trench in (a place)
- to fortify with a trench or trenches
- to slash or be slashed
- to encroach or verge
