English Explanatory Dictionary

bar ditch

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A low ditch running along the side of a road.

Word forms

bar ditch bar ditches

Etymology

Uncertain. Perhaps from bar + ditch because it ‘bars’ cattle from crossing on to the road; the first word may be a corruption of borrow (compare borrow pit), because the material to make the crown of the road was ‘borrowed’ from the sides.

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