Meaning of ખાઈ in English

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
A canoe or boat dug out from a large log.
A place dug out.
A house made partly in a hillside or slighter elevation.
To cut in; to furrow; to make trenches in or upon.
To surround with a trench or with intrenchments, as in fortification; to fortify with a ditch and parapet; as, the army intrenched their camp, or intrenched itself.
To invade; to encroach; to infringe or trespass; to enter on, and take possession of, that which belongs to another; -- usually followed by on or upon; as, the king was charged with intrenching on the rights of the nobles, and the nobles were accused of intrenching on the prerogative of the crown.
A deep trench around the rampart of a castle or other fortified place, sometimes filled with water; a ditch.
To surround with a moat.
of Notch
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.
of Trench