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   dyke

   /dʌɪk/

   noun

   • 1. a long wall or embankment built to prevent flooding from the sea.
   • ▪ a low wall or earthwork serving as a boundary or defence: "Offa's Dyke"
   • ▪ a causeway.
   • 2. a ditch or watercourse.
   • 3. an intrusion of igneous rock cutting across existing strata.
   • 4. a toilet. informal, dated Australian, New Zealand

   verb

   • 1. provide (land) with a wall or embankment to prevent flooding: "they dyked the marshland along the rivers to provide pasture in summer"

   Word Origin 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’.

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