Usually means: Channel designed to drain water.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. ditch: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. ditch: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. ditch: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. ditch, the Ditch: Collins English Dictionary
  5. ditch: Vocabulary.com
  6. Ditch, ditch: Wordnik
  7. ditch: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Ditch: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  9. The Ditch, ditch: Wiktionary
  10. ditch: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. ditch: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. ditch: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Ditch, ditch: Dictionary.com
  14. ditch: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. ditch: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Ditch (fortification), Ditch, The Ditch: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Ditch: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. ditch: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. ditch: Rhymezone
  20. ditch: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. ditch: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. ditch: Free Dictionary
  23. ditch: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. ditch: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. ditch: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ditch: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ditch: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. ditch: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)

Slang (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. ditch, ditch, ditch: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Ditch: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade
  3. Ditch: Dublin Slang and Phrasebook
  4. Ditch, The Ditch: Urban Dictionary

Tech (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Ditch: Dictionary of Military Architecture
  4. Urban Conservation Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
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:  (transitive, intransitive, aviation) To deliberately crash-land an airplane on water.
verb:  (transitive, intransitive) 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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