Dyke vs. Dike

Variant of dike1.

An embankment of earth and rock built to prevent floods.

Used as a disparaging term for a lesbian.

Chiefly British A low wall, often of sod, dividing or enclosing lands.

(historical) A long, narrow hollow dug from the ground to serve as a boundary marker.

A barrier blocking a passage, especially for protection.

A long, narrow hollow dug from the ground to conduct water.

A raised causeway.

(dialect) Any navigable watercourse.

A ditch; a channel.

(dialect) Any watercourse.

(Geology)A long mass of igneous rock that cuts across the structure of adjacent rock.

(dialect) Any small body of water.

Variant of dyke2.

(obsolete) Any hollow dug into the ground.

To protect, enclose, or provide with a dike.

A place to urinate and defecate: an outhouse or lavatory.

To drain with dikes or ditches.

An embankment formed by the creation of a ditch.

: to dig a ditch; to raise an earthwork; etc.

(obsolete) A city wall.

A ditch; a channel for water made by digging.

A low embankment or stone wall serving as an enclosure and boundary marker.

An embankment to prevent inundations; a levee.

(dialect) Any fence or hedge.

A wall of turf or stone.

An earthwork raised to prevent inundation of low land by the sea or flooding rivers.

A wall-like mass of mineral matter, usually an intrusion of igneous rocks, filling up rents or fissures in the original strata.

(figuratively) Any impediment, barrier, or difficulty.

To surround or protect with a dike or dry bank; to secure with a bank.

A beaver's dam.

To drain by a dike or ditch.

(dialect) A jetty; a pier.

To work as a ditcher; to dig.

A raised causeway.

Offensive terms for a lesbian who is noticeably masculine

A fissure in a rock stratum filled with intrusive rock; a fault.

A barrier constructed to contain the flow of water or to keep out the sea

(geology) A body of rock (usually igneous) originally filling a fissure but now often rising above the older stratum as it is eroded away.

Enclose with a dike;

A lesbian, particularly one with masculine or butch traits or behavior.

A non-heterosexual woman.

To dig, particularly to create a ditch.

To surround with a ditch, to entrench.

To surround with a low dirt or stone wall.

To raise a protective earthwork against a sea or river.

To scour a watercourse.

To steep [fibers] within a watercourse.

See Dike. The spelling dyke is restricted by some to the geological meaning.

Offensive terms for a lesbian who is noticeably masculine

A barrier constructed to contain the flow of water or to keep out the sea

Enclose with a dike;