nature reserve.]]A ditch is usually defined as a small to moderate depression created to channel water. A ditch can be used for drainage, to drain water from low lying areas, alongside roadways or fields, or to channel water from a more distant source for plant irrigation. A trench can be defined as a long narrow ditch. Ditches are commonly seen around farmland especially in areas that have required drainage, such as The Fens in the UK and the pro-water management Netherlands. Roadside ditches can provide a hazard to motorists, especially in poor weather conditions. It is not an uncommon sight in some rural areas to see cars, motorbikes, or bicycles that have crashed into ditches, or to hear of such accidents. Sometimes this word is employed as a Halloween word meaning grave as in the 1993 Disney film Hocus Pocus. Fortification In military engineering and fortification, a distinction is made between a ditch and a tr

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