Defn: A fish spear. [Obs.] Ainsworth.
TRENAIL
Tre"nail`, n. (Shipbuilding)
Defn: Same as Treenail.
TRENCH
Trench, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Trenched; p. pr. & vb. n. Trenching.]
Etym: [OF. trenchier to cut, F. trancher; akin to Pr. trencar,
trenchar, Sp. trinchar, It. trinciare; of uncertain origin.]
1. To cut; to form or shape by cutting; to make by incision, hewing, or the like. The wide wound that the boar had trenched In his soft flank. Shak. This weak impress of love is as a figure Trenched in ice, which with an hour's heat Dissolves to water, and doth lose its form. Shak.
2. (Fort.)
Defn: To fortify by cutting a ditch, and raising a rampart or breastwork with the earth thrown out of the ditch; to intrench. Pope. No more shall trenching war channel her fields. Shak.
3. To cut furrows or ditches in; as, to trench land for the purpose of draining it.
4. 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.
TRENCH
Trench, v. i.