drainage ditch

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   a ditch for carrying off excess water or sewage

   Broaderditch

Questions about drainage ditch

What does drainage ditch mean?

drainage ditch means "a ditch for carrying off excess water or sewage".

Is drainage ditch a common word?

drainage ditch is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.