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Definition dyke

Etymology 1

A variant of dike, from Northern Middle English dik and dike (“ditch”), from Old Norse díki (“ditch”). Influenced by Middle Dutch dijc (“ditch; dam”) and Middle Low German d?k (“dam”). See also ditch.

Noun

dyke (plural dykes)

1. (Britain, historical) A long, narrow hollow dug from the ground to serve as a boundary marker.
2. (Britain) A long, narrow hollow dug from the ground to conduct water.
3. (Britain, dialectal) Any navigable watercourse.
4. (Britain, dialectal) Any watercourse.
5. (Britain, dialectal) Any small body of water.
6. (obsolete) Any hollow dug into the ground.
7. (now chiefly Australia, slang) A place to urinate and defecate: an outhouse or lavatory.
8. (Britain) An embankment formed by the creation of a ditch.
9. (obsolete) A city wall.
10. (now chiefly Scotland) A low embankment or stone wall serving as an enclosure and boundary marker.
11. (Britain, dialectal) Any fence or hedge.
12. (Britain) An earthwork raised to prevent inundation of low land by the sea or flooding rivers.
13. (Britain, figuratively) Any impediment, barrier, or difficulty.
14. (Britain) A beaver's dam.
15. (Britain, dialectal) A jetty; a pier.
16. (Britain) A raised causeway.
17. (Britain, dialectal, mining) A fissure in a rock stratum filled with intrusive rock; a fault.
18. (Britain, geology) A body of rock (usually igneous) originally filling a fissure but now often rising above the older stratum as it is eroded away.

Verb

dyke (third-person singular simple present dykes, present participle dyking, simple past and past participle dyked)

1. (transitive or intransitive) To dig, particularly to create a ditch.
2. (transitive) To surround with a ditch, to entrench.
3. (transitive, Scotland) To surround with a low dirt or stone wall.
4. (transitive or intransitive) To raise a protective earthwork against a sea or river.
5. (transitive) To scour a watercourse.
6. (transitive) To steep [fibers] within a watercourse.

Etymology 2

Unknown. Attested US 1942, in Berrey and Van den Bark’s American Thesaurus of Slang.

Noun

dyke (plural dykes)

1. (slang, usually derogatory) A lesbian, particularly one with masculine or macho traits or behavior.

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