Trench
[ trench ]
/ trɛntʃ /
noun
Richard Chen·e·vix
[shen-uh-vee] /ˈʃɛn ə vi/,1807–86,
English clergyman and scholar, born in Ireland.
British Dictionary definitions for richard trench
trench
/ (trɛntʃ) /
noun
a deep ditch or furrow
a ditch dug as a fortification, having a parapet of the excavated earth
verb
to make a trench in (a place)
(tr)
to fortify with a trench or trenches
to slash or be slashed
(intr; foll by on or upon)
to encroach or verge
See also
trenches
Word Origin for trench
C14: from Old French
trenche something cut, from
trenchier to cut, from Latin
truncāre to cut off
Scientific definitions for richard trench
trench
[ trĕnch ]
A long, steep-sided valley on the ocean floor. Trenches form when one tectonic plate slides beneath another plate at a subduction zone. The Marianas Trench, located in the western Pacific east of the Philippines, is the deepest known trench (10,924 m or 35,831 ft) and the deepest area in the ocean.