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▸ 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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