Bar ditch

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A bar ditch, also known as a barrow pit, is a roadside pit or channel dug for drainage purposes. Also, adjacent to pasturage, confines cattle keeping livestock from straying onto road [cattle country, western USA][Possibly archaic] [1] The term is most often used in the Southwestern United States.

Notes

  1. Avis, Walter S. (1984) "Notes on Borrow(ing) Pit" pp. 1–10 In Raphael, Lawrence J. (1984) Language and cognition: essays in honor of Arthur J. Bronstein Plenum Press, New York, page 3, ISBN 978-0-306-41433-6


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