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dyke
Noun
  • A long, narrow hollow dug from the ground to serve as a boundary marker. Britain, historical
  • A long, narrow hollow dug from the ground to conduct water. Britain
  • Any navigable watercourse. Britain, dialect
  • Any watercourse. Britain, dialect
  • Any small body of water. Britain, dialect
  • Any hollow dug into the ground. obsolete
  • A place to urinate and defecate: an outhouse or lavatory. now chiefly Australia, slang
  • An embankment formed by the creation on a ditch. Britain
  • A city wall. obsolete
  • A low embankment or stone wall serving as an enclosure and boundary marker. now chiefly Scotland
  • Any fence or hedge. Britain, dialect
  • An earthwork raised to prevent inundation of low land by the sea or flooding rivers. Britain
  • Any impediment, barrier, or difficulty. Britain, figuratively
  • A beaver's dam. Britain
  • A jetty; a pier. Britain, dialect
  • A raised causeway. Britain
  • A fissure in a rock stratum filled with intrusive rock; a fault. Britain, dialect, mining
  • A body of rock (usually igneous) originally filling a fissure but now often rising above the older stratum as it is eroded away. Britain, geology
Verb
  • To dig, particularly to create a ditch. transitive or intransitive
  • To surround with a ditch, to entrench. transitive
  • To surround with a low dirt or stone wall. transitive, Scotland
  • To raise a protective earthwork against a sea or river. transitive or intransitive
  • To scour a watercourse. transitive
  • To steep [fibers] within a watercourse. transitive
Noun
  • A lesbian, particularly one with masculine or macho traits or behavior. slang, usually pejorative