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bar ditch

bar ditch noun: a low ditch running along the side of a road.

Noun

bar ditch (plural bar ditches)

  1. (Southern US) A low ditch running along the side of a road.
    • She continued along the bar ditch, sweat running down her back now.2013, Philipp Meyer, The Son, Simon & Schuster, published 2014, page 282

Forms of bar ditch

pluralbar ditches

Origin of bar ditch

Uncertain. Perhaps from bar + ditch because it ‘bars’ cattle from crossing on to the road; the first word may be a corruption of borrow (compare borrow pit), because the material to make the crown of the road was ‘borrowed’ from the sides.

Questions about bar ditch

What does bar ditch mean?
Bar ditch means a low ditch running along the side of a road.
What part of speech is bar ditch?
Bar ditch is a noun.
What is the plural of bar ditch?
The plural of bar ditch is bar ditches.

Words near bar ditch in the dictionary

  1. bar cookie
  2. bar cookies
  3. bar crawl
  4. bar crawls
  5. bar diagram
  6. bar ditch
  7. bar ditches
  8. bar down
  9. bar end
  10. bar ends
  11. bar exam

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