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▸ noun: A long, narrow hollow dug from the ground to conduct water.
▸ noun: (dialect) Any navigable watercourse.
▸ noun: (dialect) Any watercourse.
▸ noun: (dialect) Any small body of water.
▸ noun: (obsolete) Any hollow dug into the ground.
▸ noun: (now chiefly Australia, slang) A place to urinate and defecate: an outhouse or lavatory.
▸ noun: An embankment formed by the spoil from the creation of a ditch.
▸ noun: A wall, especially (obsolete outside heraldry) a masoned city or castle wall.
▸ noun: (now chiefly Scotland) A low embankment or stone wall serving as an enclosure and boundary marker.
▸ noun: (dialect) Any fence or hedge.
▸ noun: An earthwork raised to prevent inundation of low land by the sea or flooding rivers.
▸ noun: (figuratively) Any impediment, barrier, or difficulty.
▸ noun: A beaver's dam.
▸ noun: (dialect) A jetty; a pier.
▸ noun: A raised causeway.
▸ noun: (dialect, mining) A fissure in a rock stratum filled with intrusive rock; a fault.
▸ noun: (geology) A body of rock (usually igneous) originally filling a fissure but now often rising above the older stratum as it is eroded away.
▸ verb: (transitive or intransitive) To dig, particularly to create a ditch.
▸ verb: (transitive) To surround with a ditch, to entrench.
▸ verb: (transitive, Scotland) To surround with a low dirt or stone wall.
▸ verb: (transitive or intransitive) To raise a protective earthwork against a sea or river.
▸ verb: (transitive) To scour a watercourse.
▸ verb: (transitive) To steep [fibers] within a watercourse.
▸ noun: (slang, usually derogatory, offensive) A lesbian, particularly one with masculine or butch traits or behavior.
▸ noun: (slang, usually derogatory, loosely, offensive) A non-heterosexual woman.
▸ noun: A village in Lincolnshire, England.
▸ noun: A surname.
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