trench : Idioms & Phrases

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approach trench

  • noun a trench that provides protected passage between the rear and front lines of a defensive position
    approach trench.
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atacama trench

  • noun a depression in the floor of the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Chile
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bougainville trench

  • noun a depression in the floor of the Pacific Ocean between New Guinea and the Solomon Islands
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communication trench

  • noun a trench that provides protected passage between the rear and front lines of a defensive position
    approach trench.
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fire trench

  • noun a trench especially constructed for the delivery of small-arms fire
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japan trench

  • noun a depression in the floor of the Pacific Ocean to the northeast of Japan that reaches depths of 30,000 feet
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slit trench

  • noun narrow trench for shelter in battle
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Tail of the trenches

  • (Fort.), the post where the besiegers begin to break ground, and cover themselves from the fire of the place, in advancing the lines of approach.
Webster 1913

To open the trenches

  • (Mil.), to begin to dig or to form the lines of approach.
Webster 1913

To trench at

  • to make trenches against; to approach by trenches, as a town in besieging it. Obs.
Webster 1913

Trench cavalier

  • (Fort.), an elevation constructed (by a besieger) of gabions, fascines, earth, and the like, about half way up the glacis, in order to discover and enfilade the covered way.
Webster 1913

trench coat

  • noun a military style raincoat; belted with deep pockets
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trench fever

  • noun marked by pain in muscles and joints and transmitted by lice
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trench foot

  • noun resembling frostbite but without freezing; resulting from exposure to cold and wet
    immersion foot.
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trench knife

  • noun a knife with a double-edged blade for hand-to-hand fighting
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trench mortar

  • noun a muzzle-loading high-angle gun with a short barrel that fires shells at high elevations for a short range
    howitzer; mortar.
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trench mouth

  • noun an acute communicable infection of the respiratory tract and mouth marked by ulceration of the mucous membrane
    Vincent's angina; Vincent's infection.
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Trench plow, ∨ Trench plough

  • a kind of plow for opening land to a greater depth than that of common furrows.
Webster 1913

trench warfare

  • noun a struggle (usually prolonged) between competing entities in which neither side is able to win
    • the hope that his superior campaigning skills would make a difference evaporated in the realization that electioneering had become a form of trench warfare
  • noun a type of armed combat in which the opposing troops fight from trenches that face each other
    • instead of the war ending quickly, it became bogged down in trench warfare
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trench-plow

Trench"-plow", Trench"-plough` transitive verb (Also<
  • Trench-plow
  • Trench-plough
)
Definitions
  1. To plow with deep furrows, for the purpose of loosening the land to a greater depth than usual.
Webster 1913

trenching spade

  • noun a hand shovel carried by infantrymen for digging trenches
    entrenching tool.
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