dyke

Meaning of dyke

noun
  1. a long wall or embankment built to prevent flooding from the sea.
  2. a ditch or watercourse.
  3. an intrusion of igneous rock cutting across existing strata.
  4. a toilet.
verb
  1. provide (land) with a wall or embankment to prevent flooding.
    they dyked the marshland along the rivers to provide pasture in summer
    the fertility of those dyked lands was unrivalled

Middle English (denoting a trench or ditch): from Old Norse dík, related to ditch. dyke1 (sense 1 of the noun) has been influenced by Middle Low German dīk ‘dam’ and Middle Dutch dijc ‘ditch, dam’.

noun

a lesbian.

1930s: origin uncertain: probably from bull dyke.

Information about dyke

  • The plural form of dyke is: dykes.
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Hyphenation of dyke

dyke

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 4 chars.
  • dyke is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

dyke synonyms

Meaning butch:

butch, dike

Meaning dam:

dam, dike

Meaning dike:

dike

Translation of dyke

Words that rhyme with dyke

Dyke, bulldyke, Klondyke, Thorndyke, Vandyke, klondyke, vandyke, Opdyke

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