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ditch

On-Yomi: クツ — Kun-Yomi: ほり

Koohii stories:

1) [RoboTact] 6-3-2007(219): (See dig (#1061 掘)). When soil finally yielded thanks to your digging efforts, what you have is a ditch.

2) [aircawn] 30-12-2006(49): Ditch / trench. The yielding army abandons it's patch of soil, leaving behind a landscape of ditchs and trenches. Trench warfare.

3) [akrodha] 27-1-2007(26): Trench warfare in WWI: both sides dug ditches in the soil, and refused to yield to the other side.

4) [nakome] 30-3-2008(14): When you ditch someone you are treating them like dirt because you refuse to yield to their shit.

5) [tritonxg] 20-4-2010(5): [FR]fossé japlt:N1 hori kanji&kana:1804 monticule+se courber(fesses+sortir) un FOSSé en coupe transversale c'est deux MONTICULES qui SE COURBENT en creux au milieu 堀 【ほり】moat;canal 堀割 【ほりわり】canal;ditch 堀江 【ほりえ】canal 堀川 【ほりかわ】canal 堀端 【ほりばた】side of a moat 外堀 【そとぼり】outer moat (castle) 内堀 【うちぼり】inner moat 釣り堀 【つりぼり】) fish pond.

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