The Collaborative International Dictionary
Trocha \Tro"cha\, n. [Sp., bypath, crossroad.] (Mil.) A line of fortifications, usually rough, constructed to prevent the passage of an enemy across a region. [Sp. Amer.]
Wiktionary
n. (cx military Latin America English) A line of fortifications, usually rough, constructed to prevent the passage of an enemy across a region.
Usage examples of "trocha".
In his way lay the trocha, the famous device of the Spaniards to prevent the free movement of the Cuban forces.
At intervals of a quarter-mile or more along this well-guarded avenue were forts, each with a garrison of about one hundred men, it needing about fifteen thousand to defend the whole line of the trocha from sea to sea.
Spanish trochas were military lines cut through the woods and across the island from side to side, and defended by barbed-wire fences, while the felled trees were piled along both sides of the roadway, making a difficult breastwork of jagged roots and branches.