trench-warfare
21Trench — /trench/, n. Richard Chenevix /shen euh vee/, 1807 86, English clergyman and scholar, born in Ireland. * * * (as used in expressions) deep sea trench oceanic trench Mariana Trench trench warfare * * * …
22trench — (n.) late 14c., track cut through a wood, later long, narrow ditch (late 15c.), from O.Fr. trenche a slice, ditch (late 13c.), from trenchier to cut, possibly from V.L. *trincare, from L. truncare to cut or lop off (see TRUNCATE (Cf. truncate)).… …
23Trench (disambiguation) — A trench is a narrow depression in the ground. It may also refer to a number of people named this way, and to some other things:People* Brian Trench * Brinsley Le Poer Trench, 8th Earl of Clancarty * David Clive Crosbie Trench * Ernest Crosbie… …
24Trench map — A Trench map shows the trenches of the Great War, 1914 1918. Whilst all of the belligerents made or used maps of the trenches, this article refers mainly to those made by the British Army.The term Trench Map is used as the title of maps that… …
25trench — /trɛntʃ / (say trench) noun 1. Fortifications a long, narrow excavation in the ground, the earth from which is thrown up in front to serve as a shelter from the enemy s fire, etc. 2. (plural) a system of such excavations, with their embankments,… …
26Trench fever — A disease borne by body lice that was first recognized in the trenches of World War I, when it is estimated to have affected more than a million people in Russia and on the fronts in Europe. Trench fever was again a major problem in the military… …
27trench foot — noun resembling frostbite but without freezing; resulting from exposure to cold and wet • Syn: ↑immersion foot • Hypernyms: ↑frostbite, ↑cryopathy * * * noun Etymology: so called from its prevalence among soldiers serving in the trenches during… …
28Trench boot — The trench boot sometimes known as the Pershing boot was a combat boot used in World War I by American, French, and Belgian forces, made for the cold mud of trench warfare. EvolutionIntroductionThe 1917 Trench Boot was an adaptation of the boots… …
29warfare — n. armored; atomic, nuclear; biological; chemical; conventional; desert; economic; germ; global; guerrilla; jungle; modern; naval; psychological; push button; trench warfare * * * [ wɔːfeə] atomic biological chemical conventional desert economic… …
30warfare — /wawr fair /, n. 1. the process of military struggle between two nations or groups of nations; war. 2. armed conflict between two massed enemies, armies, or the like. 3. conflict, esp. when vicious and unrelenting, between competitors, political… …
