trenchingn.
/ˈtrɛn(t)ʃɪŋ/ The action of trench v., in its various senses.
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society > morality > dueness or propriety > moral impropriety > [noun] > infringement of rights, etc.
intrusion1433
intruseryc1470
attainmentc1503
encroachment1523
encroaching1539
trenching1543
infringinga1575
usurpationa1626
entrenching1629
entrenchment1635
invasion1650
impingement1671
infringement1673
trespass1769
usurpature1845
society > occupation and work > industry > earth-moving, etc. > [noun] > digging or excavating > of trenches
trenching1543
gripping1852
society > armed hostility > defence > defensive work(s) > earthwork or rampart > [noun] > trench > action of trenching
entrenching1549
entrenchment1593
trenching1899
1543–4 Act 35 Hen. VIII c. 10 Any digging trenching or breakinge of suche Grounde.
1635 R. Sanderson Two Serm. S. Pauls Crosse & Grantham i. 13 Sufficient to acquite..the Constitutions from that trenching upon Christian liberty, wherewith they are charged.
1799 J. Robertson Gen. View Agric. Perth 278 The trenching of land in the open fields..is not so expensive as is generally supposed.
1899 Westm. Gaz. 20 Nov. 7/3 Commandant Cronje had marked each step of his advance on the town by elaborate trenching.
Compounds
C1. General attributive.
trenching-fork n.
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the world > food and drink > farming > tools and implements > [noun] > trenching tool
scuppet1485
trenching-knife?1518
trenching-tool1779
trenching-spade1866
trenching-fork1875
1875 Encycl. Brit. I. 335/2 To have those patches of ground..which are missed in ploughing, gone over with the trenching-fork.
trenching-knife n.
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the world > food and drink > farming > tools and implements > [noun] > trenching tool
scuppet1485
trenching-knife?1518
trenching-tool1779
trenching-spade1866
trenching-fork1875
?1518 Kalender of Shepardes (new ed.) sig. Ev A great bochery, where as Yreful men and women were thorowe persyd with trenchyng knyues.
trenching-plough n.
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the world > food and drink > farming > tools and implements > ploughing equipment > [noun] > plough > trenching-plough
trenching-plough1669
trench-plough1805
1669 J. Worlidge Systema Agriculturæ (1681) 231 The Trenching-Plough or Coulter is a certain Instrument used in Meadow or Pasture-ground, to cut out the sides of Trenches, Carriages, or Drains.
1733 W. Ellis Chiltern & Vale Farming 326 The Trenching Plough, is either a Wheel or Foot-plough.
trenching-spade n.
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the world > food and drink > farming > tools and implements > [noun] > trenching tool
scuppet1485
trenching-knife?1518
trenching-tool1779
trenching-spade1866
trenching-fork1875
1866 Harper's Mag. Oct. 636/1 Rough-boarded warehouses crammed with..gun-carriages,..trenching spades, and axes.
1904 Daily News 18 Aug. 8/1 Parties of soldiers..were going about the field with trenching spades burying the dead.
trenching-system n.
trenching-tool n.
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the world > food and drink > farming > tools and implements > [noun] > trenching tool
scuppet1485
trenching-knife?1518
trenching-tool1779
trenching-spade1866
trenching-fork1875
1779 in 9th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS App. iii. 148 in Parl. Papers 1910 (Cd. 5038) XXXV. 675 A large quantity of trenching tools, etc., had been put on board.
1809 A. Henry Trav. & Adventures Canada xv. 130 The most common way of taking the beaver is that of breaking up its house, which is done with trenching-tools.
1979 R. Blythe View in Winter iv. 172 They was now shellin' like anything... I got my trenchin'-tool out.
trenching way n.
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1780 A. Young Tour Ireland (Dublin ed.) I. 17 Great quantities of potatoes planted in the trenching way.
C2.
trenching-plane n. a grooving-plane.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > shaping tools or equipment > plane > [noun] > for cutting grooves
plough plane1645
plough1678
router1818
fillister1819
match plane1833
old woman's tooth1846
router plane1846
trenching-plane1859
matching plane1875
guillaume1885
1859 F. S. Cooper Ironmongers' Catal. 134 Trenching Plane.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online December 2019).
> as lemmas
ˈtrenching
ˈtrenching adj.
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1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie ii. xi. 77 With sharpe Trenching blade of bright steele.
1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 i. i. 7 No more shall trenching war channel her fields. View more context for this quotation
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