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1. fossa (general term): fossa incllis: incile (for water; e.g., in the field). A small ditch, fossula: a covered ditch, fossa caeca (opposed to fossa patens): to make a ditch, fossam facere, ducere (in the Silver age, fossam premere, deprimere, percutere; Vid: Burmann Quint., Decl., 3, 16, p. 72: incile ducere, Ulp.): to open or clear out ditches, incilia aperire: to make a ditch before anything, fossam praeducere; around anything, fossa cingere or circumdare aliquid.

2. v. fossam (fossas) ducere, facere.