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CUT-OFF DITCH

Specialty Definition: CUT-OFF DITCH

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Building & Civil Engineering

Ditch : an open trench in the ground for the purpose of receiving and conducting water. Source: European Union. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: CUT-OFF DITCH

Language Translations for "CUT-OFF DITCH"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

groeft (catchwater drain, ditch, drainage ditch), afvandingsgroeft (catchwater drain, ditch, drainage ditch), afskaerende groeft (catchwater drain, ditch, drainage ditch). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

sloot voor het opvangen(verzamelen)van percolatiewater (catchwater drain, ditch, drainage ditch), sloot (ditch, hole, pit), afwateringssloot (catchwater drain, ditch, drainage ditch), afwateringsgreppel (catchwater drain, ditch, drainage ditch), afvoersloot (catchwater drain, ditch, drainage ditch, outlet, outlet ditch, outlet drain, turn-out), afsnijdende sloot (catchwater drain, ditch, drainage ditch). (various references)

   

French

  

fosse d'interception des eaux de ruissellement, fosse d'écoulement, fosse. (various references)

   

German

  

Graben (burrow, canal, channel, cut, cutting, dig, ditch, engrave, excavation, fosse, grub, gutter, hole, mine, moat, pit, pole, prospect, rift, scoop out, spade, to burrow, to dig, to dig (dug, to sink, to trench, trench, water jump), Entwaesserungsgraben (catchwater drain, ditch, drainage ditch). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

γ)τάφρος συγκεντρώσεως υδάτων επιφανειακής απορροής (catchwater drain, ditch, drainage ditch). (various references)

   

Italian

  

fossato (ditch, Fosse, moat), fossadi drenaggio (catchwater drain, ditch, drainage ditch), fossa di scolo (catchwater drain, ditch, drainage ditch). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ut-offcay itchday

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: CUT-OFF DITCH

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-c-d-f-f-h-i-o-t-t-u"

-4 letters: outchid.

-5 letters: cutoff, fucoid, offcut, outfit, outhit, tictoc.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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1. Translations: Modern
2. Anagrams
3. Bibliography


  

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