Definition of "trench" []

• A deep furrow or ditch. (noun)
• A long narrow ditch embanked with its own soil and used for concealment and protection in warfare. (noun)
• A long, steep-sided valley on the ocean floor. (noun)
• To cut a trench in. (verb-transitive)
• To fortify with trenches. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "It's usually a variety of steak served with frozen vegetables and what they describe as trench fried."
• "Below the trench is a lace negligee of barbed wire, all the barbed wire the kibbutz had in 1948, and beyond that are Egyptian tanks, just where they stopped when they could go no farther."
• "So the only way that they could really construct what we call a trench would be actually what I call a fortification meaning they would have to build up."