Dyke Synonyms

dīk
A barrier constructed to contain the flow of water or to keep out the sea
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. dike
  2. butch
  3. dam
Enclose with a dike
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. dike

Words Related to Dyke

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Related:

  1. Offa's
  2. offas
  3. fleam
  4. drystane

Dyke Sentence Examples

  • At Inverell in New South Wales a diamond (1906) has been found embedded in a hornblende diabase which is described as a dyke intersecting the granite.

  • Shields (1825-1904), who afterwards entered the Protestant Episcopal Church, republished and urged the adoption of the Book of Common Prayer as amended by the Westminster Divines in the royal commission of 1661; and Henry Van Dyke was prominent in the latter stage of the movement for a liturgy.

  • Dr. Van Dyke was an eloquent speaker.

  • A dyke called Blemund's Ditch, of unknown origin, bounded it on the south, where the land was marshy.

  • There have been discovered (1907) the remains of this ditch protected by a low wall or a stone dyke; some of the boundary stones which marked its course, and inscriptions mentioning it, have also been found.

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