Difference between revisions of "Trench"

<p> (1): (v. t.) To fortify by cutting a ditch, and raising a rampart or breastwork with the earth thrown out of the ditch; to intrench. </p> <p> (2): (v. t.) An alley; a narrow path or walk cut through woods, shrubbery, or the like. </p> <p> (3): (v. t.) To cut; to form or shape by cutting; to make by incision, hewing, or the like. </p> <p> (4): (v. t.) A long, narrow cut in the earth; a ditch; as, a trench for draining land. </p> <p> (5): (v. t.) To cut furrows or ditches in; as, to trench land for the purpose of draining it. </p> <p> (6): (v. i.) To have direction; to aim or tend. </p> <p> (7): (v. i.) To encroach; to intrench. </p> <p> (8): (v. t.) To dig or cultivate very deeply, usually by digging parallel contiguous trenches in succession, filling each from the next; as, to trench a garden for certain crops. </p> <p> (9): (v. t.) An excavation made during a siege, for the purpose of covering the troops as they advance toward the besieged place. The term includes the parallels and the approaches. </p>

<p> TRENCH, </p> 1. To cut or dig, as a ditch, a channel for water, or a long hollow in the earth. We trench land for draining. This is the appropriate sense of the word. 2. To fortify by cutting a ditch and raising a rampart or breast-work of earth thrown out of the ditch. In this sense, entrench is more generally used. 3. To furrow to form with deep furrows by plowing. 4. To cut a long gash. Not in use. <p> TRENCH, To encroach. See Entrench. </p> <p> TRENCH, n. A long narrow cut in the earth a ditch as a trench for draining land. </p> 1. In fortification, a deep ditch cut for defense, or to interrupt the approach of an enemy. The wall or breast-work formed by the earth thrown out of the ditch, is also called a trench, as also any raised work formed with bavins, gabions, wool-packs or other solid materials, Hence, the phrases, to mount the trenches, to guard the trenches, to clear the trenches, &c.open the trenches, to begin to dig, or to form the lines of approach.

<div> 1: Χάραξ (Strong'S #5482 — Noun Masculine — charax — khar'-ax ) </div> <p> primarily "a pointed stake," hence, "a palisade or rampart," is rendered "trench" in Luke 19:43 , AV (RV, "bank," marg., "palisade"). In A.D. 70, Titus, the [[Roman]] general, surrounded [[Jerusalem]] with a palisaded mound (Tyndale, l.c., renders it "mound"). The [[Jews]] in one of their sorties destroyed this charax, after which Titus surrounded the city with a wall of masonry. </p>

<p> A passage of approach to the walls of a besieged city, like a deep ditch; the earth thrown up constituting a wall. The Redeemer, weeping over Jerusalem a few days before he was crucified under its walls, said, "The days shall come upon thee, that thine enemies shall cast a trench about thee, and compass thee round, and keep thee in on every side," Luke 19:43 . The Romans fulfilled this prediction by enclosing the entire city of Jerusalem by a wall, that the Jews might neither escape nor be relieved from without. In 1 Samuel 26:5 , "trench" appears to mean the circle formed by camp equipage. See CAMP, ENCAMPMENTS. </p>

<p> (prop. תַּעָלָה, tealah, 1 Kings 18:32; 1 Kings 18:35; 1 Kings 18:38, a channel, or "conduit," as elsewhere), a kind of ditch cut into the earth for the purpose of receiving and draining the water from adjacent parts. Something of this kind was the trench cut by the prophet [[Elijah]] to contain the water which he ordered to be poured on his sacrifice (1 Kings 18:32), and which, when filled to the brim. with water, was entirely exhausted, evaporated, by the fire of the Lord which consumed the sacrifice. (See [[Elijah]]). </p>