English Dictionary

dyke

/daɪk/

noun

(historical) A long, narrow hollow dug from the ground to serve as a boundary marker. / A long, narrow hollow dug from the ground to conduct water. / (dialect) Any navigable watercourse.

The dyke was built to protect the town from flooding.

意味（1）

(historical) A long, narrow hollow dug from the ground to serve as a boundary marker.

意味（2）

A long, narrow hollow dug from the ground to conduct water.

意味（3）

(dialect) Any navigable watercourse.

意味（4）

(dialect) Any watercourse.

意味（5）

(dialect) Any small body of water.

意味（6）

(obsolete) Any hollow dug into the ground.

意味（7）

(now chiefly Australia, slang) A place to urinate and defecate: an outhouse or lavatory.

In Cubbaroo's dim distant past

They built a double dyke.

Back to back in the yard it stood

In Cubbaroo's dim distant past They built a double dyke. Back to back in the yard it stood An architectural dream in wood.

意味（8）

An embankment formed by the creation of a ditch.

意味（9）

(obsolete) A city wall.

意味（10）

(now chiefly Scotland) A low embankment or stone wall serving as an enclosure and boundary marker.

意味（11）

(dialect) Any fence or hedge.

意味（12）

An earthwork raised to prevent inundation of low land by the sea or flooding rivers.

The king of Texcuco advised the building of a great dike, so thick and strong as to keep out the water.

意味（13）

(figuratively) Any impediment, barrier, or difficulty.

意味（14）

A beaver's dam.

意味（15）

(dialect) A jetty; a pier.

意味（16）

A raised causeway.

意味（17）

(dialect, mining) A fissure in a rock stratum filled with intrusive rock; a fault.

意味（18）

(geology) A body of rock (usually igneous) originally filling a fissure but now often rising above the older stratum as it is eroded away.

Their exact relationship to the host-rock is obscure but from their texture and observed metamorphic relationship they are thought to be intrusive dykes rather than intercalations of more basic lava.