noun

• (Ireland) A raised bank of earth and the hedgerow on top.
  "You flung a ditch on my vision Of beauty, love and truth. O stony grey soil of Monaghan You burgled my bank of youth!"

verb

• (transitive) To discard or abandon.
  "Once the sun came out we ditched our rain-gear and started a campfire."
• (ambitransitive, aviation) To deliberately crash-land an airplane on water.
  "When the second engine failed, the pilot was forced to ditch; their last location was just south of the Azores."
• (ambitransitive) To deliberately not attend classes; to play hookey.
  "The truant officer caught Louise ditching with her friends, and her parents were forced to pay a fine."
• (intransitive) To dig ditches.
  "Enclosure led to fuller winter employment in hedging and ditching."

name

• (Anglo-Indian, slang, derogatory, obsolete) The city of Calcutta.