dyke
IPA: dˈaɪk
noun
- (historical) A long, narrow hollow dug from the ground to serve as a boundary marker.
- A long, narrow hollow dug from the ground to conduct water.
- (dialect) Any navigable watercourse.
- (dialect) Any watercourse.
- (dialect) Any small body of water.
- (obsolete) Any hollow dug into the ground.
- (now chiefly Australia, slang) A place to urinate and defecate: an outhouse or lavatory.
- An embankment formed by the creation of a ditch.
- A wall, especially (obsolete outside heraldry) a masoned city or castle wall.
- (now chiefly Scotland) A low embankment or stone wall serving as an enclosure and boundary marker.
- (dialect) Any fence or hedge.
- An earthwork raised to prevent inundation of low land by the sea or flooding rivers.
- (figuratively) Any impediment, barrier, or difficulty.
- A beaver's dam.
- (dialect) A jetty; a pier.
- A raised causeway.
- (dialect, mining) A fissure in a rock stratum filled with intrusive rock; a fault.
- (geology) A body of rock (usually igneous) originally filling a fissure but now often rising above the older stratum as it is eroded away.
- (slang, usually derogatory, offensive) A lesbian, particularly one with masculine or butch traits or behavior.
- (slang, usually derogatory, loosely, offensive) A non-heterosexual woman.
- A village in Lincolnshire, England.
- A surname.
verb
- (transitive or intransitive) To dig, particularly to create a ditch.
- (transitive) To surround with a ditch, to entrench.
- (transitive, Scotland) To surround with a low dirt or stone wall.
- (transitive or intransitive) To raise a protective earthwork against a sea or river.
- (transitive) To scour a watercourse.
- (transitive) To steep [fibers] within a watercourse.
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Examples of "dyke" in Sentences
- This is on account of the dykes.
- And I'm not a faggot but a dyke.
- It is surrounded by a ring dyke.
- It was built on a dyke in heathlands.
- Stone apprised Dykes of the situation.
- The damage to dykes and sluices was immense.
- Her father, Dr. A.B. Van Dyke, was an osteopath.
- They effectively undermine the construction of a dyke.
- It has produced olivine basalt dykes, lavas, and agglomerate.
- In the batholiths, there are quartz feldspar porphyry and dolerite dykes.