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dykes up

dykes up is the third-person singular simple present indicative of dyke up.

Meaning of dyke up

Verb

dyke up (third-person singular simple present dykes up, present participle dyking up, simple past and past participle dyked up)

  1. (transitive) To build a dyke along (a body of water or a piece of land).
    • Plumstead Marshes and Barking Level made one morass, four miles wide at least, or nearer five, drowned twice a day into a great level sheet of water, until some civilisation came to dyke up the tidal stream and confine it to the central bed, which it had scoured in its windings through such a...1912 December, Hilaire Belloc, chapter II, in The River of London, London & Edinburgh: T. N. Foulis, →OCLC, page 21

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What is dykes up the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Dykes up is the third-person singular simple present indicative of dyke up.

Words near dykes up in the dictionary

  1. dyker
  2. dykers
  3. dykery
  4. dykes
  5. dykes out
  6. dykes up
  7. Dykeses
  8. dykey
  9. Dykhouse
  10. Dykhouses
  11. dykier

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