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Dyke (flood prevention), a barrier used to control or confine water. Levee.

Dyke (geology), in geology, wall-like intrusion of igneous rock, cutting across other strata of pre-existing rocks, originally formed by a flow of...

Offa's Dyke (Michael Botham/Robert Harding Picture Library)

Offa's Dyke, series of huge earthworks created between ad 784 and 786 by the Anglo-Saxon king Offa to mark the boundary between England and Wales....

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- embankment to prevent floods: an embankment built along the shore of a sea or lake or beside a river to hold back the water and prevent flooding
- barrier: a barrier or obstacle meant to keep something out
- causeway: a raised roadway across a swamp or body of water
- ditch: a drainage ditch or other...

- an offensive term for a lesbian

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Offa's Dyke, Shropshire (Michael Botham/Robert Harding Picture Library)

Offa's Dyke, Shropshire

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