dyke
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Is dyke a Scrabble word?
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What is the meaning of dyke?
Definition
noun (English)
1. (historical) A long, narrow hollow dug from the ground to serve as a boundary marker.UKhistorical
2. (dialect) Any navigable watercourse.UKdialectal
3. (dialect) Any watercourse.UKdialectal
4. (dialect) Any small body of water.Synonyms: puddle, pond, pool, lakelet, mereUKdialectal
5. (obsolete) Any hollow dug into the ground.Synonyms: den, cave, hole, pitUKobsolete
6. (now chiefly Australia, slang) A place to urinate and defecate: an outhouse or lavatory.Examples: "In Cubbaroo's dim distant past They built a double dyke. Back to back in the yard it stood An architectural dream in wood."AustraliaUKslang
verb (English)
1. (transitive or intransitive) To dig, particularly to create a ditch.Examples: "He finds out, soon enough for his weal and his bane, that he is stronger than Nature: and right tyrannously and irreverently he lords it over her, clearing, delving, dyking, building, without fear or shame."UKintransitivetransitive
2. (transitive) To surround with a ditch, to entrench.UKtransitive
3. (transitive, Scotland) To surround with a low dirt or stone wall.ScotlandUKtransitive
4. (transitive or intransitive) To raise a protective earthwork against a sea or river.UKintransitivetransitive
5. (transitive) To scour a watercourse.UKtransitive
6. (transitive) To steep [fibers] within a watercourse.UKtransitive
noun (English)
1. (slang, usually derogatory, offensive) A lesbian, particularly one with masculine or butch traits or behavior.UKderogatoryoffensiveslangusually
2. (slang, usually derogatory, loosely, offensive) A non-heterosexual woman.UKbroadlyderogatoryoffensiveslangusually
This word may be considered offensive or sensitive in some contexts.
Definition source: Wiktionary