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dyke

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4 lettersPronunciation /ˈdaɪ̯k/Part of speech verb, nounSorted dekyStarts with DEnds with E0 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. enclose with a dike

Word origin

A variant of dike, from Northern Middle English dik and dike (“ditch”), from Old Norse díki (“ditch”). Influenced by Middle Dutch dijc (“ditch; dam”) and Middle Low German dīk (“dam”). See also ditch.

Used in a sentence

  • The king of Texcuco advised the building of a great dike, so thick and strong as to keep out the water.
  • Serious as was the flood damage in England, the bursting of some of the dykes on the coast of Holland resulted in an even more widespread and devastating inundation.
  • Their exact relationship to the host-rock is obscure but from their texture and observed metamorphic relationship they are thought to be intrusive dykes rather than intercalations of more basic lava.

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