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noun a ditch dug as a fortification having a parapet of the excavated earth
noun a long steep-sided depression in the ocean floor
noun any long ditch cut in the ground
originBorrowed into Middle English from Old French trenche. Doublet of tranche and traunch. Possible doublet of English: truncate
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