ditch
/dɪt͡ʃ/ noun B2- 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.· The truck careered off the road into a ditch.
Plural ditches
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They had hardly been walking an hour when they saw before them a great ditch that crossed the road and divided the forest as far as they could see on either side.
It was a very wide ditch, and when they crept up to the edge and looked into it they could see it was also very deep, and there were many big, jagged rocks at the bottom.
Neither can we climb down into this great ditch.
They were all greatly pleased to see how easily he did it, and after the Scarecrow had got down from his back the Lion sprang across the ditch again.
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