#ditch

• Splash down — To perform a maneuver of descending and making controlled contact with the surface of a sea or an ocean, specific to seaplanes, adapted helicopters, or space capsules when returning to Earth; to make structural contact with water at the end of an aerial or cosmic flight.
• Water ditch — An extremely rare regional or archaic name found in certain Carpathian dialects or old administrative documents, used to denote a small irrigation canal, a rainwater drainage ditch, or a narrow channel through which a stream is diverted toward a mill or a household. This rural structural element played an important role in the empirical management of water resources within traditional communities.
• Drainage ditch — An archaic or regional term, historically used to denote a type of deep ditch, defensive pit, dug channel, or drainage canal for rainwater around a household, fortification, or along a rural public road, serving as protection against floods or intruders.