dyke

Definitions

• (historical) 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.
• (dialect) Any navigable watercourse.
• (dialect) Any watercourse.
• (dialect) Any small body of water.
• (obsolete) Any hollow dug into the ground.
• (now) A place to urinate and defecate: an outhouse or lavatory.
• An embankment formed by the creation of a ditch.
• (obsolete) A city wall.
• (now) A low embankment or stone wall serving as an enclosure and boundary marker.
• (dialect) Any fence or hedge.
• An earthwork raised to prevent inundation of low land by the sea or flooding rivers.
• (figuratively) Any impediment, barrier, or difficulty.
• A beaver's dam.
• (dialect) A jetty; a pier.
• A raised causeway.
• (dialect) A fissure in a rock stratum filled with intrusive rock; a fault.
• (geology) A body of rock (usually igneous) originally filling a fissure but now often rising above the older stratum as it is eroded away.