dyke

Plural: dykes

Noun

• (slang) offensive term for a lesbian who is noticeably masculine
• a barrier constructed to contain the flow of water or to keep out the sea
• 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.
• Any navigable watercourse.
• Any watercourse.
• Any small body of water.
• Any hollow dug into the ground.
• A place to urinate and defecate: an outhouse or lavatory.
• An embankment formed by the spoil from the creation of a ditch.
• A wall, especially (obsolete outside heraldry) a masoned city or castle wall.
• A low embankment or stone wall serving as an enclosure and boundary marker.
• Any fence or hedge.
• An earthwork raised to prevent inundation of low land by the sea or flooding rivers.
• Any impediment, barrier, or difficulty.
• A beaver's dam.
• A jetty; a pier.
• A raised causeway.
• A fissure in a rock stratum filled with intrusive rock; a fault.
• A body of rock (usually igneous) originally filling a fissure but now often rising above the older stratum as it is eroded away.
• A lesbian, particularly one with masculine or butch traits or behavior.
• A non-heterosexual woman.

Verb

Verb Forms: dyked, dyking, dykes

• To build or reinforce with a dike; to enclose or drain.
• enclose with a dike
• To dig, particularly to create a ditch.
• To surround with a ditch, to entrench.
• To surround with a low dirt or stone wall.
• To raise a protective earthwork against a sea or river.
• To scour a watercourse.
• To steep [fibers] within a watercourse.

Examples

• He tried to dyke off his opponent’s access to the triple-word score with a well-placed word.

Synonyms

butch, dam, dike, bank, breakwater, cave, den, ditch, earthwork, embankment, female homosexual, floodwall, fosse, hole, lakelet, levee, mere, pit, pond, pool, puddle, seawall, trench

Related Words

dig, ditch

Anagrams of dyke