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Definition of To trench at
To trench at Trench Trench, v. i.
1. To encroach; to intrench.
Does it not seem as if for a creature to challenge
to itself a boundless attribute, were to trench upon
the prerogative of the divine nature? --I. Taylor.
2. To have direction; to aim or tend. [R.] --Bacon.
To trench at, to make trenches against; to approach by
trenches, as a town in besieging it. [Obs.]
Like powerful armies, trenching at a town By slow
and silent, but resistless, sap. --Young.