bar ditch

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A low ditch running along the side of a road. Southern-US
    — She continued along the bar ditch, sweat running down her back now.

词形变化

bar ditches plural

词源

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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