Usually means: Deep, narrow ditch for drainage.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. trench: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. trench: Merriam-Webster
  3. trench: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. trench: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. trench: Collins English Dictionary
  6. trench: Vocabulary.com
  7. Trench, trench: Wordnik
  8. trench: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. trench: Wiktionary
  10. trench: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. trench: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. trench: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. trench: Dictionary.com
  14. trench: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. trench: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. The Trench (Dix), The Trench (comics), The Trench (film), The Trench (novel), The Trench, Trench (album), Trench (disambiguation), Trench: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Trench: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. trench: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. trench: Rhymezone
  20. Trench: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. trench: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. trench: FreeDictionary.org
  23. trench: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. trench: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. trench: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. trench: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)

Science (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  2. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  3. Illustrated Glossary of Geologic Terms (No longer online)
  4. trench: Dictionary of Geology

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. trench, trench: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. trench: Urban Dictionary

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Space and Electronic Warfare Lexicon (No longer online)
  2. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)
  3. Trench: Dictionary of Military Architecture

(Note: See trenched as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A long, narrow ditch or hole dug in the ground.
noun:  (military) A narrow excavation as used in warfare, as a cover for besieging or emplaced forces.
noun:  (archaeology) A pit, usually rectangular with smooth walls and floor, excavated during an archaeological investigation.
noun:  (informal) A trench coat.
verb:  (usually followed by upon) To invade, especially with regard to the rights or the exclusive authority of another; to encroach.
verb:  (military, infantry) To excavate an elongated pit for protection of soldiers and or equipment, usually perpendicular to the line of sight toward the enemy.
verb:  (archaeology) To excavate an elongated and often narrow pit.
verb:  To have direction; to aim or tend.
verb:  To cut; to form or shape by cutting; to make by incision, hewing, etc.
verb:  To cut furrows or ditches in.
verb:  To dig or cultivate very deeply, usually by digging parallel contiguous trenches in succession, filling each from the next.
noun:  A suburb of Telford, Telford and Wrekin borough, Shropshire, England (OS grid ref SJ6912).
noun:  A habitational surname.

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