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† inˈditch, v. Obs.
Also 6 endich, 7 indich.
[f. in-1 or in-2 + ditch n.]
1. trans. To cast into or bury in (or as in) a ditch.
1597Bp. Hall Sat. iii. ii, Wert thou inditched in great secrecie; Where as no passenger might curse thy dust, Nor dogs sepulchrall sate their gnawing lust. 1630J. Taylor (Water P.) Wks. i. 64/2 One was cast dead into the Thames..drawne with a Boat and a rope downe some part of the Riuer, and dragged to shore and indiched.
2. To enclose or surround with a ditch; to entrench.
1598Florio, Affossare, to dike, to ditch or moate about, to make trenches or dikes, to endich. 1610Holland Camden's Brit. i. 212 The Danes..raised as it is thought certaine trenches: whereof one is called Maumbury being an acre indiched. |