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Definition of Ditching
1. ditch [v] - See also: ditch
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ditching
Literary usage of Ditching
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain (1883)
"Pray observe some of the effects of this ditching business. Once there was a neck
opposite Port Hudson, Louisiana, which was only half a mile across, ..."
2. Railway Track and Track Work by Edward Ernest Russell Tratman (1901)
"A handy and labor-saving device is a ditching car, which consists of a heavy ...
The derrick chains support the front and back bails of a ditching scoop or ..."
3. Roadway and Track by Walter Freeman Rench (1921)
"The time of cut watchmen can profitably be employed in ditching ... When the
ditching is heavy, a steam ditching machine is desirable, provided proper ..."
4. Practical Farm Drainage: Why, When, and how to Tile Drain by Charles Gleason Elliott (1903)
"There has been considerable effort, during the last few years, to lessen the
expense of ditching for tile- drains by the invention and use of machines. ..."
5. Earthwork and Its Cost: A Handbook of Earth Excavation by Halbert Powers Gillette (1920)
"ditching with Cable Flow Operated from Barges. In ditching land that is too soft
to permit the operation of a caterpillar traction ditcher, ..."
6. Sanitary Entomology: The Entomology of Disease, Hygiene and Sanitation by William Dwight Pierce (1921)
"ditching and Clearing Streams and Swamps Other details may be designated to clear
stream beds and drain low lands. Spring lands, bogs, and swamps furnish an ..."
7. The Trackman's Helper: A Book of Instruction for Track Foremen by Joseph Kindelan, Frederick Augustus Smith, F. R. Coates, Jerry Sullivan (1894)
"A ditching RULE. 6. A simple device like that shown in Fig. n is very handy ...
The cross piece, B, of the ditching rule should be set so that the back of ..."
8. Maintenance of Way and Structures by William Clyde Willard (1915)
"ditching.—During the winter dirt accumulates in the side ditches in cuts and as
soon as the snow disappears all ditches should be cleaned. ..."
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