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.
A lesbian, particularly one with masculine or butch traits or behavior.
To dig, particularly to create a ditch.
He finds out, soon enough for his weal and his bane, that he is stronger than Nature: and right tyrannously and irreverently he lords it over her, clearing, delving, dyking, building, without fear or shame.
A village in Bourne parish, South Kesteven district, Lincolnshire, England, named after Car Dyke (OS grid ref TF1022).
A small village in Moray council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NH9858).
An unincorporated community in Greene County, Virginia, United States.
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.
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To surround with a ditch, to entrench.
To surround with a low dirt or stone wall.