dyke
noun
[ dʌɪk ]
• a long wall or embankment built to prevent flooding from the sea.
• a ditch or watercourse.
• an intrusion of igneous rock cutting across existing strata.
• a toilet.
dyke
verb
• provide (land) with a wall or embankment to prevent flooding.
• "they dyked the marshland along the rivers to provide pasture in summer"
Origin:
Middle English (denoting a trench or ditch): from Old Norse dík, related to ditch. dyke1 (sense 1 of the noun) has been influenced by Middle Low German dīk ‘dam’ and Middle Dutch dijc ‘ditch, dam’.
dyke
noun
• a lesbian.
Origin:
1930s: origin uncertain: probably from bull dyke.
