ditch

Object

enclosure: In the late Saxon period, occupation comprised a ditched enclosure around at least one timber building.

Converse of object

• dig: They also started digging a ditch around the building.
• encircle: The motte consists of a central grass covered mound with an encircling ditch and bank, bailey and outer rampart.
• excavate: Twelve ring ditches excavated are interpreted as Bronze Age by association with the ring ditches excavated during the 1980's.
• flank: But instead of two flanking ditches you have a raised path.
• align: Nearby were north-south aligned ditches which may represent a fluid boundary.

Adjective modifier

• defensive: This road is built along the site of a Roman defensive ditch situated just north of Hadrian's Wall.
• water-filled: Rivers: The area is covered by a network of small streams and water-filled ditches.
• causewayed: Geophysical surveys have traced the causewayed ditch for a distance of about 80m in a generally south-westerly direction.
• outer: Settlement was also found between the inner and outer ditches as well as further downhill.
• shallow: Behind our trench there were three cottages just across the road & shallow ditch ran from our trench to the road.
• muddy: Now proceed across the field to a crossing point over a muddy ditch.

Modifies a noun

• straightener: Echo Leisure: Battle of the bands Time to ditch straighteners Echo Weekend: There's a bit of.. .
• digger: For seven years he worked as a vine planter, irrigation ditch digger, cow puncher, and smallholder in the new Western state.

Noun used with modifier

• anti-tank: Later, when the tank became a serious tactical weapon, anti-tank ditches were added to the first line of defense.
• drainage: Drainage ditches need cleaning out from time to time.
• rock-cut: The castle is protected by limestone cliffs to the south and rock-cut ditches to the west.
• enclosure: These experiments were designed specifically to examine the nature of the typical domestic enclosure ditch of the Iron Age period.
• north/south: The north/south ditch is then seen continue further northwards before linking with another large ditch running east/west.
• roadside: A Gray Wagtail flew up the river and from a roadside ditch we flushed a Little Crake.