Meaning of खंदक in English
- To bite with repeated action of the teeth so as to be heard.
- To bite into small pieces; to crunch.
- To bite or chew impatiently.
- Alt. of Champe
- One who champs, or bites.
- A blow; a stroke.
- The mark left by a blow; an indentation or impression made by violence; a dent.
- Force; power; -- esp. in the phrase by dint of.
- To make a mark or cavity on or in, by a blow or by pressure; to dent.
- A word; a decree.
- A ditty; a song.
- To close up.
- A trench made in the earth by digging, particularly a trench for draining wet land, for guarding or fencing inclosures, or for preventing an approach to a town or fortress. In the latter sense, it is called also a moat or a fosse.
- Any long, narrow receptacle for water on the surface of the earth.
- To dig a ditch or ditches in; to drain by a ditch or ditches; as, to ditch moist land.
- To surround with a ditch.
- To throw into a ditch; as, the engine was ditched and turned on its side.
- To dig a ditch or ditches.
- of Ditch
- See Dit, n., 2.
- A deep trench around the rampart of a castle or other fortified place, sometimes filled with water; a ditch.
- To surround with a moat.
- A preacher.
- To cut; to form or shape by cutting; to make by incision, hewing, or the like.
- To fortify by cutting a ditch, and raising a rampart or breastwork with the earth thrown out of the ditch; to intrench.
- To cut furrows or ditches in; as, to trench land for the purpose of draining it.
- To dig or cultivate very deeply, usually by digging parallel contiguous trenches in succession, filling each from the next; as, to trench a garden for certain crops.
- To encroach; to intrench.
- To have direction; to aim or tend.
- A long, narrow cut in the earth; a ditch; as, a trench for draining land.
- An alley; a narrow path or walk cut through woods, shrubbery, or the like.
- An excavation made during a siege, for the purpose of covering the troops as they advance toward the besieged place. The term includes the parallels and the approaches.
- Fitted to trench or cut; gutting; sharp.
- Fig.: Keen; biting; severe; as, trenchant wit.
- One who trenches; esp., one who cuts or digs ditches.
- A large wooden plate or platter, as for table use.
- The table; hence, the pleasures of the table; food.
- of Trench
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