2. Verb. (third-person singular of ditch) ¹
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Definition of Ditches
1. ditch [v] - See also: ditch
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ditches
Literary usage of Ditches
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Report by Illinois Highway Commission (1908)
"SIDE ditches. Where the road is through level country, the side ditches should
be broad and ... ditches made in this manner do not cave in every spring. ..."
2. A Manual of the Principles and Practice of Road-making: Comprising the by William Mitchell Gillespie (1871)
"Their general adoption would greatly increase the safety of night- travelling,
the accidents in which often occur from running on high banks or into ditches ..."
3. Nome and Seward Peninsula: History, Description, Biographies and Stories by Edward Sanford Harrison (1905)
"The work of making ditches in this country has fairly begun. It started in 1901
and at the close of the season of 1904 the hills and plains of Seward ..."
4. Water Rights in the Western States: The Law of Prior Appropriation of Water by Samuel Charles Wiel (1911)
"Use in artificial water structures—ditches, flumes, pipes in general. 455. ...
Contracts concerning ditches. 459. Joint use of ditch. 460. Repair of ditches ..."
5. Mining Rights in the Western States and Territories: Lode and Placer Claims by Robert Stewart Morrison, Emilio Dominguez De Soto (1900)
"It seems not necessary that the ditch owners should incorporate to condemn a
right of way for ditches, though incorporation in such cases is usual and is ..."