dykes

Meaning of dykes

plural noun
  1. a long wall or embankment built to prevent flooding from the sea.
  2. a ditch or watercourse.
  3. an intrusion of igneous rock cutting across existing strata.
  4. a toilet.
verb, 3rd person present
  1. provide (land) with a wall or embankment to prevent flooding.
    they dyked the marshland along the rivers to provide pasture in summer
    the fertility of those dyked lands was unrivalled

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’.

plural noun

a lesbian.

1930s: origin uncertain: probably from bull dyke.

Information about dykes

  • The singular form of dykes is: dyke.
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Hyphenation of dykes

dykes

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 5 chars.
  • dykes is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

Anagrams of dykes

skyed

Words that rhyme with dykes

bykes, Klondykes, Vandykes, bulldykes, klondykes, vandykes, winterdykes, fykes, hykes, Lykes, grykes, rykes, Sykes, sykes, tykes

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