The act of scarifying: raking the ground harshly to remove weeds, etc.
A medieval form of penance in which the skin was damaged with a knife or hot iron.
A route of administration for some vaccinations and tests: rather than hypodermic injection, the site is inoculated intradermally not with any injection but rather only with small, shallow pricks or scratches; the needle is not hollow.
The scratching, etching, burning / branding, or superficially cutting designs, pictures, or words into the skin as a permanent body modification.
A long, narrow ditch or hole dug in the ground.
A narrow excavation as used in warfare, as a cover for besieging or emplaced forces.
A pit, usually rectangular with smooth walls and floor, excavated during an archaeological investigation.
A trench coat.
To dig or cultivate very deeply, usually by digging parallel contiguous trenches in succession, filling each from the next.
To excavate an elongated pit for protection of soldiers and or equipment, usually perpendicular to the line of sight toward the enemy.
To have direction; to aim or tend.
To cut; to form or shape by cutting; to make by incision, hewing, etc.
To cut furrows or ditches in.
To excavate an elongated and often narrow pit.
To invade, especially with regard to the rights or the exclusive authority of another; to encroach.