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KING JAMES BIBLE DICTIONARY

 

Ditch

The Bible

Bible Usage:

Dictionaries:

  • Included in Eastons: No
  • Included in Hitchcocks: No
  • Included in Naves: Yes
  • Included in Smiths: No
  • Included in Websters: Yes
  • Included in Strongs: Yes
  • Included in Thayers: Yes
  • Included in BDB: Yes

Strongs Concordance:

Naves Topical Index
Ditch

Figurative; Proverbs 23:27


Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Ditch

DITCH, noun [G.]

1. A trench in the earth made by digging, particularly a trench for draining wet land, or for making a fence to guard inclosures, or for preventing an enemy from approaching a town or fortress. In the latter sense, it is called also a foss or moat, and is dug round the rampart or wall between the scarp and counterscarp.

2. Any long, hollow receptacle of water.

DITCH, verb intransitive To dig or make a ditch or ditches.

DITCH, verb transitive

1. To dig a ditch or ditches in; to drain by a ditch; as, to ditch moist land.

2. To surround with a ditch


Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Ditch-delivered

DITCH-DELIVERED, adjective Brought forth in a ditch.


Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Ditcher

DITCHER, noun One who digs ditches.


Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Ditching

DITCHING, participle present tense Digging ditches; also, draining by a ditch or ditches; as ditching a swamp.