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ditch

23 ENTRIES FOUND:
  1. 1) ditch (noun)
  2. 2) ditch (verb)
  3. ditch bank blade (noun)
  4. ditch boss (noun)
  5. ditch check (noun)
  6. ditch crowfoot (noun)
  7. ditch fern (noun)
  8. ditch grass (noun)
  9. ditch millet (noun)
  10. ditch moss (noun)
  11. ditch reed (noun)
  12. ditch rider (noun)
  13. ditch stonecrop (noun)
  14. ditch sunflower (noun)
  15. bar ditch (noun)
  16. big ditch (noun)
  17. borrow ditch (noun)
  18. box ditch (noun)
  19. Grime's ditch
  20. Grim's ditch (noun)
  21. head ditch (noun)
  22. last ditch (noun)
  23. last-ditch (adjective)

1ditch

noun \ˈdich\

Definition of DITCH

: a long narrow excavation dug in the earth (as for drainage)
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Examples of DITCH

  1. He drove the car into the ditch.
  2. <after skidding on the ice, our car went right into the ditch>

Origin of DITCH

Middle English dich, from Old English dīc dike, ditch; akin to Middle High German tīch pond, dike
First Known Use: before 12th century

Related to DITCH

Synonyms: dike, fosse (or foss), gutter, sheugh [chiefly Scottish], trench, trough
Related Words: acequia [Southwest], culvert, drain, draw, gully (also gulley), ravine; drill, furrow; ha-ha, moat, stank [British dialect], sunk fence; kennel
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Other Civil Engineering Terms

asphalt, ballast, barrage, cantilever, infrastructure, sluice

Rhymes with DITCH

bitch, fitch, flitch, glitch, hitch, itch, kitsch, niche, pitch, quitch, rich, snitch, stitch, such, switch, twitch, which, witch

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