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fill-dyke

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

Origin of fill-dyke

From fill + dyke.

Phrases with fill-dyke

Questions about fill-dyke

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

Words near fill-dyke in the dictionary

  1. fill someone's shoes
  2. fill the bill
  3. fill up
  4. fill'd
  5. fill-dike
  6. fill-dyke
  7. fill-in
  8. fill-ins
  9. fill-kill
  10. fill-out
  11. fill-outs

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Adapted from Wiktionary: fill-dyke (page history and authors); February fill-dike (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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