Definition of Ditch

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Definition of Ditch

Ditch

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.

Any long, narrow receptacle for water on the surface of the earth.

To dig a ditch or ditches in; to drain by a ditch or ditches; as, to ditch moist land.

To surround with a ditch.

To throw into a ditch; as, the engine was ditched and turned on its side.

To dig a ditch or ditches.

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Ditch Quotations

One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.
Booker T. Washington

If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you.
Calvin Coolidge

But maybe it's up in the hills under the leaves or in a ditch somewhere. Maybe it's never found. But what you find, whatever you find, is always only part of the missing, and writing is the way the poet finds out what it is he found.
Paul Engle

I have three phobias which, could I mute them, would make my life as slick as a sonnet, but as dull as ditch water: I hate to go to bed, I hate to get up, and I hate to be alone.
Tallulah Bankhead

I had to fight all my life to survive. They were all against me... but I beat the bastards and left them in the ditch.
Ty Cobb

You cannot expect the guy who drove the car into the ditch to navigate it out of the ditch. You have to put a new driver in the seat. I'm not saying the new driver is going to be any better, but we need a new driver. Kerry is the only choice.
John Mellencamp

I had to live in the desert before I could understand the full value of grass in a green ditch.
Ella Maillart

I was a typical farm boy. I liked the farm. I enjoyed the things that you do on a farm, go down to the drainage ditch and fish, and look at the crawfish and pick a little cotton.
Sam Donaldson

Whether or not all this came to pass in an East African ditch, I wouldn't like to say. Perhaps it happened in North Africa or further west, but Africa was definitely the place.
Richard Leakey

The Professional Children's School, it's for professional kids, so if you wanted to ditch, you could just write, Audition on a note and leave. I didn't really like school all that much.
Kieran Culkin

Ditch Translations

ditch in Afrikaans is sloot
ditch in Dutch is groeve, greppel, gracht, kuil, groef
ditch in Latin is fossa
ditch in Portuguese is vala
ditch in Spanish is cuneta, zanja
ditch in Swedish is dike

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