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dich

dich is the obsolete form of ditch.

Meaning of ditch

Noun

ditch (plural ditches)

  1. A trench; a long, shallow indentation, as for irrigation or drainage.
    • Digging ditches has long been considered one of the most demanding forms of manual labor.
  2. (Ireland) A raised bank of earth and the hedgerow on top.
    • You flung a ditch on my vision
      Of beauty, love and truth.
      O stony grey soil of Monaghan
      You burgled my bank of youth!c. 1947, Patrick Kavanagh, “Stony Grey Soil”, Poetry Selections, in Ireland Study Abroad, University Park, Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania State University, archived from the original on 14 Mar 2021, page...

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Forms of dich

Noun
pluraldiches
Verb
third-person singular presentdiches
present participlediching
past participlediched
pastdiched

Questions about dich

What is dich the obsolete form of?
Dich is the obsolete form of ditch.

Words near dich in the dictionary

  1. dices up
  2. dicesium
  3. diceware
  4. dicey
  5. diceyness
  6. dich
  7. dichacolgenide
  8. dichain
  9. dichalcogenide
  10. dichalcogenides
  11. dichalkogenide

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