Clues for the word "TRENCH"
We've had 55 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 105 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Cryptic crossword on July 08, 2026.
Definition of trench
- v. t. - To cut; to form or shape by cutting; to make by incision, hewing, or the like.
- v. t. - To fortify by cutting a ditch, and raising a rampart or breastwork with the earth thrown out of the ditch; to intrench.
- v. t. - To cut furrows or ditches in; as, to trench land for the purpose of draining it.
- v. t. - To dig or cultivate very deeply, usually by digging parallel contiguous trenches in succession, filling each from the next; as, to trench a garden for certain crops.
- v. i. - To encroach; to intrench.
- v. i. - To have direction; to aim or tend.
- v. t. - A long, narrow cut in the earth; a ditch; as, a trench for draining land.
- v. t. - An alley; a narrow path or walk cut through woods, shrubbery, or the like.
- v. t. - An excavation made during a siege, for the purpose of covering the troops as they advance toward the besieged place. The term includes the parallels and the approaches.
Referring Clues
- You can dig it
- Soldiers' ditch
- Channel
- Type of warfare
- Ditch
- Long, narrow ditch
- Wartime shelter
- Front lines shelter
- Deep furrow
- Low point
- Deep ditch
- Battleground excavation
- Wartime ditch
- Dug-out area
- Doughboys' ditch
- Coat type
- Mariana ___ (deepest part of the ocean)
- Rut
- Battlefield furrow
- Mariana ___ (world's deepest ocean point)
- GI's ditch
- Moat
- Detective's coat, informally
- Word with coat or warfare
- Doughboy's battle station
- Battlefield ditch
- Depression shared by soldiers
- Long ditch
- Large ditch
- Type of warfare or coat
- Deep part of ocean or river surrounded by fish
- WWI hideout for soldiers
- See 17
- French rhyme relating to warfare
- Long, narrow excavation
- A river fish caught in a moat
- Ditch dug as fortification
- See 12
- Fish around river-ditch
- French making new start to waterway
- Hole at the front
- Ditch such a coat
- Fish seen round right channel
- Wartime channel
- Fish round river and channel
- Ditch fashion mostly followed by church
- Ditch fish in river? On the contrary
- Ditch partially enclosed during raising of 11 10 20 12
- Fish accepting right channel
- Dug shelter
- War zone excavation
- ___ coat
- Narrow ditch
- ___ coat (belted garment)
- ___ coat (P.I.'s garment)
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Cryptic - July 08, 2026
- New Zealand Herald - May 08, 2026
- Daily Cryptic - March 23, 2026
- Evening Standard Quick - December 18, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - December 09, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - November 04, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - September 22, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - August 30, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - July 09, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - June 02, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - February 24, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - February 14, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - December 27, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - October 02, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - August 12, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - July 08, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - May 31, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - April 21, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - April 16, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - April 05, 2024
- Mindfood Daily - March 24, 2024
- Daily Cryptic - March 22, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - March 04, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - January 24, 2024
- Your Life Choices - January 19, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - January 19, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - September 09, 2023
- Daily Cryptic - July 09, 2023
- New Zealand Herald - July 04, 2023
- USA Today - June 23, 2023
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