ditch

IPA: dˈɪtʃ

A trench; a long, shallow indentation, as for irrigation or drainage.
(Ireland) A raised bank of earth and the hedgerow on top.
Alternative form of deech [(UK dialectal, Northern England) Dirt ingrained on the hands, or in cracks, crevices, etc.]

(transitive) To discard or abandon.
(transitive, intransitive, aviation) To deliberately crash-land an airplane on water.
(transitive, intransitive) To deliberately not attend classes; to play hookey.
(intransitive) To dig ditches.
(transitive) To dig ditches around.
(transitive) To throw into a ditch.
Alternative form of deech [(transitive) To smear, daub, plaster, or impregnate, especially with dirt which becomes hard and ingrained.]

Examples of "ditch" in Sentences

Your ditch is ahead of you come November and I can't wait until you fall in.
On the west side of the ditch is a mixture of mobile homes and permanent structures.
The ditch is out of the question; in fact it's out of sight, long gone in a cactus clad ravine.
Now a ditch is a ditch, assumably muddy, and usually traversing uninteresting and monotonous landscapes.
These words coming from a senior leader that drove a bus into a ditch is now wanting to give commentary on driving a bus.
He wiped his glasses the better to behold his beloved water, then seized a hoe and strode down the main ditch to open more laterals.
A five-inch stream of sparkling water splashed into the shallow main ditch of his irrigation system and flowed away across the orchard through many laterals.
In other cases a sunk wall, forming a kind of ditch, is used, which is concealed by plantations; or iron hurdles are stuck in, and the line is varied occasionally.