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Original entry ↗noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryA small trench or ditch, typically built in a zigzag pattern, serving to connect or provide communication between two trenches, particularly the rear and front lines. · A line, drawn winding about, in order to enclose several tracts of land, or to attack some works.
Borrowed from French boyau. Doublet of bowel.
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