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n. Archaic spelling of entrenchment.

n. The act of intrenching or the state of being intrenched.

n. Any defensive work consisting of at least a trench or ditch and a parapet made from the earth thrown up in making such a ditch.

n. Any defense or protection.

n. An encroachment or infringement.

n. The act of intrenching.

n. In fortification, a general term for a work consisting of a trench or ditch and a parapet (the latter formed of the earth dug from the ditch), constructed for a defense against an enemy. See cut under parapet.

n. Figuratively, any defense or protection.

n. Encroachment.

n. an entrenched fortification; a position protected by trenches

"In front of the stockade, but some considerable distance from it, and on the sloping land that was nigh to the beach, we had thrown up a kind of intrenchment, behind which we could kneel and fire, and under whose cover we hoped to be able to make a good account of assailants."

fortification    munition   

retrenchment   

entrenchment    obtrusion    intrench    sandpit    transgress