Dictionary entry

Intrench

Webster's Dictionary 1913

In‐trench″ (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p.Intrenched (?); p. pr. & vb. n.Intrenching.]

1. To cut in; to furrow; to make trenches in or upon.

It was this very sword intrenched it. Shak.

His face

Deep scars of thunder had intrenched. Milton.

2. To surround with a trench or with intrenchments, as in fortification; to fortify with a ditch and parapet; as, the army intrenched their camp, or intrenched itself. “In the suburbs close intrenched.” Shak.