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