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Examples of dyke
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Both should conjure visions of the little Dutch boy with his finger in the dyke.
From the forbes.com
Controlling executive pay is like putting a child's tiny finger in a doomed dyke.
From the guardian.co.uk
Dyke March participants travel in the vicinity of the state Capitol on Friday.
From the sacbee.com
Dyke seems just the man to knock a new sensibility into the sprawling bureaucracy.
From the time.com
Dyke ordered them to pick up some of the men who had already jumped into the water.
From the en.wikipedia.org
First was a sparrowhawk, a female assailed by rooks as she dashed low along a dyke.
From the guardian.co.uk
A year ago, he put his finger into the dyke and resolved to spend each Monday offline.
From the citynews.com.au
Dyke may be our enemy's enemy, but then so is Osama bin Laden and I don't support him.
From the morningstaronline.co.uk
Much more is made of his campaign to improve a dyke at the back of the village school.
From the edp24.co.uk
- Butch: (slang) offensive term for a lesbian who is noticeably masculine
- Dike: enclose with a dike; "dike the land to protect it from water"
- Dam: a barrier constructed to contain the flow of water or to keep out the sea
- Established in St.Louis in 1899 by A.L.Dyke, Dyke was the first American auto parts business. Dyke also sold early autos, kit car or assembled.
- A levee, levu00E9e (/u02C8lu025Bvi/; French:u00A0), dike, dyke, embankment, floodbank or stopbank is an elongated naturally occurring ridge or artificially constructed fill or wall, which regulates water levels. It is usually earthen and often parallel to the course of a river in its floodplain or along low-lying coastlines.
- A dike or dyke in geology is a type of sheet intrusion referring to any geologic body that cuts discordantly across * planar wall rock structures, such as bedding or foliation * massive rock formations, like igneous/magmatic intrusions and salt diapirs.
- Dyke is slang terminology referring to a lesbian or lesbianism regardless of the person's actual sexual identity. Originally, it was a derogatory label for a masculine or butch woman, and this usage still exists. ...
- Dykes is a British surname which may originate from the hamlet of Dykesfield in Burgh-by-Sands, Cumbria in the north of England. Due to its close proximity to the English and Scottish borders, the surname Dykes has also been found in Scottish lowlands throughout the ages. ...
- Diagonal pliers (or wire cutters or diagonal cutting pliers) are pliers intended for the cutting of wire (they are generally not used to grab or turn anything). ...
