dyke

Signification (Anglais)

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

digue

gouine

dyke

bois de chêne

chêne pédonculé

commodités

latrines

levée

lieux

protéger par des digues

vécés

filon plan

turcie

dike

Orc

roble beech

dry rubble

levee banks

dykes and dams

dry rubbled masonry

dry-laid rubble masonry

sea embankment

coigüe beech

dry stone wall

Fréquence

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/daɪk/

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 dīk (“dam”). See also ditch.

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