dyke (English, noun)
expansion: dyke (plural dykes)
expansion: (British spelling)
Senses:
glosses: A long, narrow hollow dug from the ground to serve as a boundary marker.
tags: UK
historical
glosses: A long, narrow hollow dug from the ground to conduct water.
tags: UK
glosses: Any navigable watercourse.
tags: UK
dialectal
glosses: Any watercourse.
tags: UK
dialectal
glosses: Any small body of water.
tags: UK
dialectal
glosses: Any hollow dug into the ground.
tags: UK
obsolete
glosses: A place to urinate and defecate: an outhouse or lavatory.
tags: Australia
UK
slang
glosses: An embankment formed by the spoil from the creation of a ditch.
tags: UK
glosses: A wall, especially (obsolete outside heraldry) a masoned city or castle wall.
tags: UK
glosses: A low embankment or stone wall serving as an enclosure and boundary marker.
tags: Scotland
UK
glosses: Any fence or hedge.
tags: UK
dialectal
glosses: An earthwork raised to prevent inundation of low land by the sea or flooding rivers.
tags: UK
glosses: Any impediment, barrier, or difficulty.
tags: UK
figuratively
glosses: A beaver's dam.
tags: UK
glosses: A jetty; a pier.
tags: UK
dialectal
glosses: A raised causeway.
tags: UK
topics: business
mining
glosses: A fissure in a rock stratum filled with intrusive rock; a fault.
tags: UK
dialectal
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A body of rock (usually igneous) originally filling a fissure but now often rising above the older stratum as it is eroded away.
tags: UK
Forms:
form: dykes
tags: plural
form: dike
tags: alternative