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Substantiivit
- (Australia, slang) A toilet.
- (slang, pejorative) A lesbian, particularly one who appears macho or acts in a macho manner. This word has been reclaimed, by some, as politically empowering. (See usage notes.)
- (UK) A ditch (rarely also refers to similar natural features, and to one natural valley, Devil's Dyke, Sussex, due to a legend that the devil dug it).
- (UK, mainly S England) An earthwork consisting of a ditch and a parallel rampart.
- (British) An embankment to prevent inundation, or a causeway.
- (UK, mainly Scotland and N England) A mound of earth, stone- or turf-faced, sometimes topped with hedge planting, or a hedge alone, used as a fence.
- (UK, mainly Scotland and N England) A dry-stone wall usually forming a boundary to a wood, field or garden.
- (British, geology) A body of once molten igneous rock that was injected into older rocks in a manner that crosses bedding planes.
Esimerkit
- 1977, In Cubbaroo's dim distant past They built a double dyke. Back to back in the yard it stood An architectural dream in wood — Ian Slack-Smith, The Passing of the Twin Seater, from The Cubbaroo Tales, 1977. Quoted in Aussie Humour, Macmillan, 1988, ISBN 0-7251-0553-4, page 235.
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