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February fill-dyke

February fill-dyke is the alternative form of February fill-dike.

Meaning of February fill-dike

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

Questions about February fill-dyke

What is February fill-dyke the alternative form of?
February fill-dyke is the alternative form of February fill-dike.

Words near February fill-dyke in the dictionary

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

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