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What does dyke mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word dyke? Here's what it means.

Noun
  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, dialect) Any navigable watercourse.
  4. (Britain, dialect) Any watercourse.
  5. (Britain, dialect) 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, dialect) 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, dialect) A jetty; a pier.
  16. (Britain) A raised causeway.
  17. (Britain, dialect, 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
  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.
Noun
  1. (pejorative) A lesbian, particularly one with masculine or macho traits or behavior.
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