'To trench at' definitions:

Definition of 'To trench at'

From: GCIDE
  • Trench \Trench\, v. i.
  • 1. To encroach; to intrench. [1913 Webster]
  • 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. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. To have direction; to aim or tend. [R.] --Bacon. [1913 Webster]
  • To trench at, to make trenches against; to approach by trenches, as a town in besieging it. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
  • Like powerful armies, trenching at a town By slow and silent, but resistless, sap. --Young. [1913 Webster]