Usually means: Narrow channels dug for drainage.
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  1. ditches: Merriam-Webster
  2. ditches: Collins English Dictionary
  3. ditches: Vocabulary.com
  4. Ditches, ditches: Wordnik
  5. ditches: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. ditches: Wiktionary
  7. Ditches, ditches: Dictionary.com
  8. ditches: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Ditches: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Ditches: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. Ditches: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. ditches: FreeDictionary.org
  13. ditches: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. ditches: Encyclopedia

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  1. ditches: Medical dictionary

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  1. ditches: Idioms

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  1. ditches: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See ditch as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (ditch)

noun:  A trench; a long, shallow indentation, as for irrigation or drainage.
noun:  (Ireland) A raised bank of earth and the hedgerow on top.
verb:  (transitive) To discard or abandon.
verb:  (ambitransitive, aviation) To deliberately crash-land an airplane on water.
verb:  (ambitransitive) To deliberately not attend classes; to play hookey.
verb:  (intransitive) To dig ditches.
verb:  (transitive) To dig ditches around.
verb:  (transitive) To throw into a ditch.
noun:  (Anglo-Indian, slang, derogatory, obsolete) The city of Calcutta.
verb:  Alternative form of deech [(transitive) To smear, daub, plaster, or impregnate, especially with dirt which becomes hard and ingrained.]
noun:  Alternative form of deech [(UK dialectal, Northern England) Dirt (or grime) ingrained on the hands, or in cracks, crevices, etc.]
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