Usually means: Barrier controlling or holding water.
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  1. dyke: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. dyke, dyke: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. dyke, dyke: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. dyke: Collins English Dictionary
  5. dyke: Vocabulary.com
  6. dyke: Wordnik
  7. dyke: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Dyke, dyke: Wiktionary
  9. dyke: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. dyke: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. dyke: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Dyke, dyke: Dictionary.com
  13. dyke: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. dyke: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Dyke (automobile company), Dyke (construction), Dyke (disambiguation), Dyke (geology), Dyke (lesbian), Dyke (slang), Dyke (surname), Dyke: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Dyke: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. dyke: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. dyke: Rhymezone
  19. Dyke: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. dyke: Free Dictionary
  21. dyke: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. dyke: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. Dyke (disambiguation), Dyke (technical), dyke: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. DYKE: Acronym Finder

Slang (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dyke (offensive): Racial Slur Database
  2. dyke, dyke, dyke, dyke: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  3. dyke: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  4. American-Australian Slang Dictionary (No longer online)

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Dyke, dyke: Dictionary of Military Architecture

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noun:  (historical) A long, narrow hollow dug from the ground to serve as a boundary marker.
noun:  A long, narrow hollow dug from the ground to conduct water.
noun:  (dialect) Any navigable watercourse.
noun:  (dialect) Any watercourse.
noun:  (dialect) Any small body of water.
noun:  (obsolete) Any hollow dug into the ground.
noun:  (now chiefly Australia, slang) A place to urinate and defecate: an outhouse or lavatory.
noun:  An embankment formed by the spoil from the creation of a ditch.
noun:  A wall, especially (obsolete outside heraldry) a masoned city or castle wall.
noun:  (now chiefly Scotland) A low embankment or stone wall serving as an enclosure and boundary marker.
noun:  (dialect) Any fence or hedge.
noun:  An earthwork raised to prevent inundation of low land by the sea or flooding rivers.
noun:  (figuratively) Any impediment, barrier, or difficulty.
noun:  A beaver's dam.
noun:  (dialect) A jetty; a pier.
noun:  A raised causeway.
noun:  (dialect, mining) A fissure in a rock stratum filled with intrusive rock; a fault.
noun:  (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:  (transitive or intransitive) To dig, particularly to create a ditch.
verb:  (transitive) To surround with a ditch, to entrench.
verb:  (transitive, Scotland) To surround with a low dirt or stone wall.
verb:  (transitive or intransitive) To raise a protective earthwork against a sea or river.
verb:  (transitive) To scour a watercourse.
verb:  (transitive) To steep [fibers] within a watercourse.
noun:  (slang, usually derogatory, offensive) A lesbian, particularly one with masculine or butch traits or behavior.
noun:  (slang, usually derogatory, loosely, offensive) A non-heterosexual woman.
noun:  A village in Lincolnshire, England.
noun:  A surname.

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