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noun
1.
a moat or defensive ditch in a fortification, usually filled with water.
2.
any ditch, trench, or canal.
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fosse
"ditch, trench," 1440, from O.Fr. fosse, from L. fossa "ditch," in full fossa terra, lit. "dug earth," from fem. pp. of fodere "to dig" (see fossil). The Fosse-way, one of the four great Roman roads of Britain, probably was so called from the ditch on either side of it.
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