dyked
Meaning of dyked
verb, past tense
- 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’.
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Hyphenation of dyked
dyked
- It consists of 1 syllables and 5 chars.
- dyked is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
Words that rhyme with dyked
byked, Klondyked, klondyked, vandyked, fyked, ryked
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