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a hole humanity dug to survive, then drowned in mud, rats, and its own ambition
means A long, narrow ditch cut into the ground, whether for drainage, construction, or sheltering soldiers in war.
from From Old French 'trenche,' meaning a slice or cut, from the verb 'trenchier' — to cut or slice — which gives us 'trench' as something carved into the earth, and is the same family that left us 'trenchant' (sharply cutting words) and the 'trencher,' the cutting-board-plate of the medieval table. The deeper root is likely Latin 'truncare,' to lop or maim, a cousin of 'truncate.' So a trench is, at heart, simply a cut in the ground — though the World War I battlefields gave that humble cut its grim afterlife.
- length
- WWI trenches stretched 25,000 miles, enough to ring Earth
- trench foot
- feet rotted alive from standing in cold water
- deepest sea
- Mariana Trench could swallow Everest whole
- the coat
- named for soldiers who wore it in them
- zigzag design
- angled so one shell couldn't kill a whole line
western front trenches — wwi defensive lines stretching 400 miles from english channel to switzerland, 1914-1918
mariana trench — deepest oceanic trench at 36,070 feet in the western pacific ocean near guam
vicksburg siege trenches — civil war fortifications where union forces under grant surrounded confederate mississippi city, 1863