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

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