Sentence examples for a ditch around from inspiring English sources

The troops usually required three to four hours to dig a ditch around the periphery, erect a rampart or palisade from timbers carried by each man, lay out streets, and pitch tents.

As T. trichiura eggs are shed only in human feces, we speculated that palace toilet contents were continually drained into the moat; therefore, at a certain point in time after construction, the moat finally became a ditch around the palace.

A motte was protected by a ditch around it, which would typically have also been a source of the earth and soil for constructing the mound itself.

The excavation of earth to make the mound left a ditch around the motte, called a moat (which could be either wet or dry).

The front of the castle is oriented to the east, and there was a ditch around the entire perimeter, including between the castle and the Plaza de Armas (Weapons Square).

Rather than sally out to meet the enemy in the usual way the mistake made at Uḥud he had a ditch dug around Medina, according to tradition, at the suggestion of a Persian convert, Salmān.

At least some parts of this burh town had a ditch dug around it, 3 m (10 feet) wide and 1.5 m (5 feet) deep, and possibly was defended by a bank of earth.

The area has been locked and fenced, "with a ditch dug around it to avoid the forest re-emerging as a refugee camp", and inhabitants moved to a new camp nearby.

The area has been locked and fenced, "with a ditch dug around it to avoid the forest reemerging as a refugee camp," and inhabitants moved to a new camp nearby.

The prosecutor said Mr. Lynch confessed to the killings during a police interview on Thursday and told detectives where to find the victims' remains: behind his parents' Coram home and in a drainage ditch around the corner.

Dig a deep ditch around your wall.