Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples
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Word:
ditch
IPA transcription: [d'ɪtʃ]
noun
meaning of the word
Synonyms:
ditch
Meaning:
a long narrow excavation in the earth
Usage examples
'Yes, I feel the ditch before the entrance.
A sluggish ditch deposited its mud at the prison walls.
And then I suppose that this ditch won't be the riddle it is now."
'Why!' said the brothers, 'this is pure mud, straight from the ditch.'
Clear running water filled the ditch, but the bottom was dull black, powdery mud.
'The racket? Some half-baked fulminate I put in the ditch out there an hour ago.'
At this Pew saw his error, turned with a scream, and ran straight for the ditch, into which he rolled.
The first part of her journey lay along a narrow lane, with a small ditch, a rising bank, and a hedge on each side.
"I would like to dig up the bottom of this ditch here foot by foot--and dry the stuff and sift it--very carefully....
The town was "as dull as ditch water." She, Bess, lived only in hopes of meeting her chum at Lakeview Hall the next September.