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A small ditch or furrow. Ray.

A sunk fence; a fence, wall, or ditch, not visible till one is close upon it. [Written also haw-haw.]

eringii), a small American tree frog, which in early spring, while breeding in swamps and ditches, sings with high, shrill, but musical, notes.

To surround with a trench or with intrenchments, as in fortification; to fortify with a ditch and parapet; as, the army intrenched their camp, or intrenched itself. "In the suburbs close intrenched." Shak.

Any defensive work consisting of at least a trench or ditch and a parapet made from the earth thrown up in making such a ditch. On our side, we have thrown up intrenchments on Winter and Prospect Hills. Washington.

To cause to jump; as, he jumped his horse across the ditch.

A passage for water; a ditch or drain. [Prov. Eng.]

designate the boundary of land; any , mark or fixed object (as a marked tree, a stone, a ditch, or a heap of stones) by which the limits of a farm, a town, or other portion of territory may be known and preserved.

a halter; a dog leads a blind man. If a blind man lead a blind man, both fall down in the ditch. Wyclif (Matt. xv. 14.) They thrust him out of the city, and led him unto the brow of the hill. Luke iv. 29. In thy right hand lead with thee The mountain nymph, sweet Liberty. Milton.

To pass over by a leap or jump; as, to leap a wall, or a ditch.

t, build, or set up; to make or construct; to raise or cast up; as, to levy a mill, dike, ditch, a nuisance, etc. [Obs.] Cowell. Blackstone.

h around the rampart of a castle or other fortified place, sometimes filled with water; a ditch.

illful in the art of navigation; also, a book which teaches the art of navigation; as, Bowditch's Navigator.

One of the poles or planks used in upholding the side earth in excavating a tunnel, ditch, etc.

A subterraneous passage communicating between the parade and the main ditch, or between the ditches and the interior of the outworks. Mahan.

To plant with living shrubs or trees for a hedge; as, to quickset a ditch. Mortimer.

aulic press. Ram's horn. (a) (Fort.) A low semicircular work situated in and commanding a ditch. [Written also ramshorn.] Farrow. (b) (Paleon.) An ammonite.

To rove over or through; as, to range the fields. Teach him to range the ditch, and force the brake. Gay.

A narrow space between the foot of the rampart and the scarp of the ditch, serving to receive the earth that may crumble off or be washed down, and prevent its falling into the ditch. Wilhelm.

The height to which works are raised above the bottom of the ditch. Wilhelm.