Word Meanings - DYKE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
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- DITCHER
One who digs ditches. - TRESPASS
To commit a trespass; esp., to enter unlawfully upon the land of another. 3. To go too far; to put any one to inconvenience by demand or importunity; to intrude; as, to trespass upon the time or patience of another. 4. To commit any offense, or - DITCH
1. A trench made in the earth by digging, particularly a trench for draining wet land, for guarding or fencing inclosures, or for preventing an approach to a town or fortress. In the latter sense, it is called also a moat or a fosse. 2. Any long, - CIRCUMVALLATION
The act of surrounding with a wall or rampart. A line of field works made around a besieged place and the besieging army, to protect the camp of the besiegers against the attack of an enemy from without. - ENCROACHMENT
An unlawful diminution of the possessions of another. (more info) 1. The act of entering gradually or silently upon the rights or possessions of another; unlawful intrusion. An unconstitutional encroachment of military power on the civil - TRESPASSER
One who commits a trespass; as: One who enters upon another's land, or violates his rights. A transgressor of the moral law; an offender; a sinner. - INFRINGEMENT
1. The act of infringing; breach; violation; nonfulfillment; as, the infringement of a treaty, compact, law, or constitution. The punishing of this infringement is proper to that jurisdiction against which the contempt is. Clarendon. - INTRENCHMENT
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. 3. Any defense or protection. - UNDERDITCH
To dig an underground ditches in, so as to drain the surface; to underdrain; as, to underditch a field or a farm. - INDITCH
To bury in, or cast into, a ditch. Bp. Hall.