Dyke vs. Dike

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  • Dyke (noun)

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

  • Dyke (noun)

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

  • Dyke (noun)

    Any navigable watercourse.

  • Dyke (noun)

    Any watercourse.

  • Dyke (noun)

    Any small body of water.

  • Dyke (noun)

    Any hollow dug into the ground.

  • Dyke (noun)

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

  • Dyke (noun)

    An embankment formed by the creation of a ditch.

  • Dyke (noun)

    A city wall.

  • Dyke (noun)

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

  • Dyke (noun)

    Any fence or hedge.

  • Dyke (noun)

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

  • Dyke (noun)

    Any impediment, barrier, or difficulty.

  • Dyke (noun)

    A beaver’s dam.

  • Dyke (noun)

    A jetty; a pier.

  • Dyke (noun)

    A raised causeway.

  • Dyke (noun)

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

  • Dyke (noun)

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

  • Dyke (noun)

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

  • Dyke (verb)

    To dig, particularly to create a ditch.

  • Dyke (verb)

    To surround with a ditch, to entrench.

  • Dyke (verb)

    To surround with a low dirt or stone wall.

  • Dyke (verb)

    To raise a protective earthwork against a sea or river.

  • Dyke (verb)

    To scour a watercourse.

  • Dyke (verb)

    To steep [fibers] within a watercourse.

  • Dike (verb)

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

  • Dike (verb)

    To be well dressed.

  • Dike (noun)

    A well-dressed man.

  • Dike (noun)

    Formalwear or other fashionable dress.

  • Dike (noun)

    : a masculine woman; a lesbian.

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