What is "drainage ditch"

Usage examples of "drainage ditch".

The bottom of the drainage ditch was about 18 inches lower than the level of the fields, so when I finally got down I was more or less at face level with the steel plate.

Enemy patrols could be seen scurrying from one drainage ditch to another.

That morning, when Sergeant Lynch had marched them off the island, Sharpe had noted a drainage ditch that angled north west from the road and pointed, like a straight line on a map, towards Sir Henry's house.

It would be easy to make the drainage ditch now, the way they're stacked up.

They ran straight eastward towards the Willamette, went past an overgrown drainage ditch and became clearer still where they'd ridden down the wooded stream bank beyond, straight into Palmer Creek.

Winters was about 25 meters from them, down in the drainage ditch.

He looked around at the two privates with him and at the drainage ditch.

It was coming from a drainage ditch that wound back under the wall to let the water from the distant Porridge Pot hot spring warm this end of the garden.

He told them that he was on one of the banks overlooking the drainage ditch.

He said there's no way of getting near the building with all those guards, but there's cover close to a drainage ditch a little distance from the base.