Definitions for dykes

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dykes dyke

Spelling: [dahyk]

IPA: /daɪk/

Dykes is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 46 anagrams from letters in dykes (deksy).

Definitions for dykes

noun

1. a contemptuous term used to refer to a lesbian.
2. an embankment for controlling or holding back the waters of the sea or a river:
3. a ditch.
4. a bank of earth formed of material being excavated.
5. a causeway.
6. British Dialect. a low wall or fence, especially of earth or stone, for dividing or enclosing land.
7. an obstacle; barrier.
8. Geology. a long, narrow, cross-cutting mass of igneous rock intruded into a fissure in older rock. a similar mass of rock composed of other kinds of material, as sandstone.
9. Australian Slang. a urinal.

noun, verb

1. dike1 .

verb (used with object)

1. to furnish or drain with a dike.
2. to enclose, restrain, or protect by a dike:

Origin of dykes

1940-45; earlier in form bulldike (with a variant bulldagger); of obscure origin; claimed to be a shortening of morphodyke (variant of morphodite, a reshaping of

Examples for dykes

dyke was a shrewd, sarcastic dog in his way, but he had no chance with me.

He will put his finger in the dyke, and the fragile mess of an auto industry will eke through the next few months.

“No,” said dyke, raising his brown face from where he rested it upon his arm.

What on airth are you doin' there in the dyke, little missy?

Did you not cheer when she socked him after he called her a “dyke”?

And he laughed again, a laugh that seemed to dyke to be calling him a fool.

Joe Emson shouted once more, but dyke would not turn his head.

“Well, they would be some good then,” said dyke, a little more amiably.

Mrs. dyke was a practical woman and talked in a practical way.

That is the very infirm legend that is told and sold at the dyke.