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Dyke vs. Dike

Dyke and Dike Definitions

Dyke

Variant of dike1.

Dike

An embankment of earth and rock built to prevent floods.

Dyke

Used as a disparaging term for a lesbian.

Dike

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

Dyke

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

Dike

A barrier blocking a passage, especially for protection.
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Dyke

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

Dike

A raised causeway.

Dyke

(dialect) Any navigable watercourse.

Dike

A ditch; a channel.

Dyke

(dialect) Any watercourse.

Dike

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

(dialect) Any small body of water.

Dike

Variant of dyke2.

Dyke

(obsolete) Any hollow dug into the ground.

Dike

To protect, enclose, or provide with a dike.

Dyke

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

Dike

To drain with dikes or ditches.
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Dyke

An embankment formed by the creation of a ditch.

Dike

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

Dyke

(obsolete) A city wall.

Dike

A ditch; a channel for water made by digging.
Little channels or dikes cut to every bed.

Dyke

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

Dike

An embankment to prevent inundations; a levee.
Dikes that the hands of the farmers had raised . . . Shut out the turbulent tides.

Dyke

(dialect) Any fence or hedge.

Dike

A wall of turf or stone.

Dyke

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

Dike

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

Dyke

(figuratively) Any impediment, barrier, or difficulty.

Dike

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

Dyke

A beaver's dam.

Dike

To drain by a dike or ditch.

Dyke

(dialect) A jetty; a pier.

Dike

To work as a ditcher; to dig.
He would thresh and thereto dike and delve.

Dyke

A raised causeway.

Dike

Offensive terms for a lesbian who is noticeably masculine

Dyke

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

Dike

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

Dyke

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

Dike

Enclose with a dike;
Dike the land to protect it from water

Dyke

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

Dyke

A non-heterosexual woman.

Dyke

To dig, particularly to create a ditch.

Dyke

To surround with a ditch, to entrench.

Dyke

To surround with a low dirt or stone wall.

Dyke

To raise a protective earthwork against a sea or river.

Dyke

To scour a watercourse.

Dyke

To steep [fibers] within a watercourse.

Dyke

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

Dyke

Offensive terms for a lesbian who is noticeably masculine

Dyke

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

Dyke

Enclose with a dike;
Dike the land to protect it from water

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