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February fill-dike

February fill-dike proper noun: a rural appellation for the month of February, when rain or melting snow fills dykes with water.

Proper noun

February fill-dike

  1. A rural appellation for the month of February, when rain or melting snow fills dykes with water.
    • January white, February fill-dike.1851, Thomas Sternberg, The Dialect and Folk-lore of Northamptonshire
    • Doris, in her terror, had forgotten that February fill-dike is upon us1997, Marion Kelsey, Victory Harvest: Diary of a Canadian in the Women's Land Army, page 174

Forms of February fill-dike

alternative formFebruary fill-dyke
alternative formFebruary fill dyke
alternative formfill-dike
alternative formfill-dyke

Words formed from February fill-dike

Questions about February fill-dike

What does February fill-dike mean?
February fill-dike means a rural appellation for the month of February, when rain or melting snow fills dykes with water.
What part of speech is February fill-dike?
February fill-dike is a proper noun.

Words near February fill-dike in the dictionary

  1. February
  2. February 31
  3. February daphne
  4. February fill dyke
  5. February fill dyke, be it black or be it white
  6. February fill-dike
  7. February fill-dyke
  8. February Patent
  9. February Red
  10. February Revolution
  11. February strike

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