dyke

Meaning

Noun

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

Verb

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

Synonyms

dike

dam

embankment

dike

weir

levee

butch

barrage

lesbian

barrier

Orc

carpet muncher

lesbo

roble beech

dry rubble

levee banks

dykes and dams

dry rubbled masonry

dry-laid rubble masonry

sea embankment

coigüe beech

vein

bat

🦇

bridge

chiropteran

mound

oak

oak tree

bank

🏦

dry stone wall

tribade

Translations

digue

gouine

Lesbe

dyke

dique

fufa

lesbiana

dic

Deich

diga

sapatão

pot

🫙

tortillera

Pronounced as (IPA)

/daɪk/

Etymology

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.