Barrow ditch

sagehen sagehen at SLIC.COM
Tue Oct 10 00:12:09 UTC 2000


Mark Odegard writes:
>It refers to the ditch  alongside a highway. A web search
>conclusively demonstrates that this is in  active usage.     Oddly,
>'barrow ditch' seems undocumented by the dictionaries. <

Isn't this probably  just a variant on the more familiar "borrow pit"  ?
...of which the OED says:  the pit from which material is taken to form an
enbankment.
A. Murie



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