Definitions for "Intrenchment"
Any defensive work consisting of at least a trench or ditch and a parapet made from the earth thrown up in making such a ditch.
Any defense or protection.
or entrenchment. Trench or ditch. Unlike modern trenches where troops shelter within them, standing on a step to fire over the protective dirt banked toward the enemy, an 18th century entrenchment had the excavated dirt heaped up behind the trench or ditch to form a dirt wall, sometimes with a palisade or fence on top. The attacking force thus had to deal with the ditch, the dirt wall and the palisade while the defenders fired their muskets from behind those shelters.
An encroachment or infringement.
Keywords:  act
The act of intrenching or the state of being intrenched.