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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Ditch \Ditch\ (?; 224), noun; pl. {Ditches}. [OE. dich, orig. the same word as dik. See {Dike}.]
1. A trench made in the earth by digging, particularly a trench for draining wet land, for guarding or fencing inclosures, or for preventing an approach to a town or fortress. In the latter sense, it is called also a {moat} or a {fosse}.
2. Any long, narrow receptacle for water on the surface of the earth.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Ditch \Ditch\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Ditched}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Ditching}.]
1. To dig a ditch or ditches in; to drain by a ditch or ditches; as, to ditch moist land.
2. To surround with a ditch. --Shak.
3. To throw into a ditch; as, the engine was ditched and turned on its side.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Ditch \Ditch\, verb (used without an object) To dig a ditch or ditches. --Swift.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
ditch
noun
1: a long narrow excavation in the earth
2: any small natural waterway
verb
1: forsake; "ditch a lover"
2: throw away; "Chuck these old notes" [syn: {chuck}]
3: sever all ties with, usually unceremoniously or irresponsibly; "The company dumped him after many years of service"; "She dumped her boyfriend when she fell in love with a rich man" [syn: {dump}]
4: make an emergency landing on water
5: crash or crash-land; "ditch a car"; "ditch a plane"
6: cut a trench in, as for drainage; "ditch the land to drain it"; "trench the fields" [syn: {trench}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
252 Moby Thesaurus words for "ditch": abandon, abri, abysm, abyss, adit, alight, approach trench, aqueduct, arch dam, arroyo, backstop, bamboo curtain, bank, bar, barrage, barrier, bear-trap dam, beaver dam, beg, boom, box canyon, breach, break, breakwater, breastwork, brick wall, buffer, bulkhead, bulwark, bunker, bury, cache, canal, canalization, canalize, canyon, carve, cashier, cast, cast aside, cast away, cast off, cavity, chamfer, channel, chap, chasm, check, chimney, chink, chisel, chuck, circumvent, cleave, cleft, cleuch, clough, cofferdam, col, come down, come in, communication trench, conceal, conduit, corrugate, coulee, couloir, countermine, coupure, course, cover, crack, cranny, crash-land, crevasse, crevice, crimp, cut, cut apart, cwm, dado, dam, deep-six, defense, defile, dell, descend, dike, discard, dispose of, ditch, donga, double, double sap, downwind, draw, duct, dugout, dump, earthwork, egress, eighty-six, eliminate, elude, embankment, engrave, ensconce, entrance, entrenchment, escape, evade, excavation, exit, fault, fence, fire trench, fissure, flaw, flume, flute, flying sap, fortified tunnel, fosse, foxhole, fracture, furrow, gallery, gap, gape, gash, gate, get around, get away from, get out of, get quit of, get rid of, get shut of, give away, goffer, gorge, gouge, gravity dam, groin, groove, gulch, gulf, gully, gutter, ha-ha, hide, hole, hydraulic-fill dam, incise, incision, ingress, iron curtain, jam, jettison, jetty, jilt, joint, junk, kennel, kloof, land, leak, leaping weir, levee, level off, light, logjam, milldam, mine, moat, mole, mound, notch, nullah, occult, open, opening, overshoot, pancake, parallel, parapet, part with, pass, passage, passageway, pleat, plow, portcullis, rabbet, rampart, ravine, reject, remove, rent, rifle, rift, rime, rive, roadblock, rock-fill dam, rupture, rut, sap, scissure, score, scrap, scratch, screen, seam, seawall, secrete, settle down, shake, shake off, shuffle out of, shutter dam, skirt, slit, slit trench, slot, slough, split, stone wall, streak, striate, sunk fence, talk down, throw away, throw out, throw over, throw overboard, toss overboard, touch down, trench, trough, troughing, troughway, tunnel, upwind, valley, void, wadi, wall, way, weir, wicket dam, work, wrinkle
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