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• For quotations using this term, see Citations:dykes.From the entry dikes
• I go to that dyke shrinkette who helped me “get over” Felix.2020, Larry Kramer, The Brutality of Fact (The American People), volume 2, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN. From the entry shrinkette
• The evening was a full dyke takeover thrown by two women, Cass Bugge and Molly Schiot.2019, Jill Solloway, She Wants It: Desire, Power, and Toppling the Patriarchy, page 97. From the entry doppelbanger
• Oh, but she has a purse — must not be a dyke.2013, Mara Hollis, Talking Donkeys and Smashing Babies, page 43. From the entry dyky
• When you get to the dyke road, turn towards Minh Khai Commune.2010, Discovering Craft Villages in Vietnam, page 302. From the entry dyke road
• If you use undersized dykes to cut large wire, you can damage or break them.2008, John Hechtman, Audio Wiring Guide: How to Wire the Most Popular Audio and Video Connectors, page 15. From the entry dykes
• Or does the Black woman just see another dyke she fancies, who fancies her?1995, Lynne Pearce, Jackie Stacey, Romance Revisited - Volume 1995, part 2, page 186. From the entry fellate
• Gay men may love it as well, and others with a hook into contemporary urban dyke life.1988 February 7, Elizabeth Pincus, “A Romp Through Lavender Land”, in Gay Community News, volume 15, number 29, page 7. From the entry hook
• The women drive pick-up trucks and seem more at ease in double-knits than dyke chic.1979 December 29, Maida Tilchen, “Polyester Lesbians”, in Gay Community News, volume 7, number 23, page 16. From the entry double knit
• For cutting lead came, you’ll need ‘lead came dykes,’ which are simple nippers designed to avoid crushing the lead.2022, Neile Cooper, Kicking Glass: A Creative Guide to Stained Glass Craft, page 40. From the entry dykes
• Among our team, Marcy and Leonard were unfireable as Diversity, she being a dyke and he being black.2014, Jacob Bacharach, The Bend of the World, page 98. From the entry unfireable
• Unlike the march-dykes, it is clearly a sheep dyke with "sheep-creeps" that can be opened or blocked off as required.2013, Waddell, Gordon, Highland roots : the real story of one highland cottage. From the entry sheep creep
• Allowing for erosion it is estimated that that its 45° slope from bank top to dyke bottom was originally 12m.2012, David S Neal, Angela Wardle, Jonathan Hunn, Excavation of the Iron Age, Roman and Medieval Settlement at Gorhambury, St Albans, page…. From the entry dyke bottom
• I am a tweener dyke and more butch than femme.2011, Laurie Penny, Meat Market: Female Flesh Under Capitalism (John Hunt Publishing), quoting Marja Erwin. From the entry trans womyn
• At the third road on the right, you go down from the dyke and through a large gateway.2010, Discovering Craft Villages in Vietnam, page 302. From the entry dyke road
• In recent years, queer theorists have taken a deep interest in the tomboy as a prefigure for the butch dyke.2005, Leerom Medovoi, Rebels: Youth and the Cold War Origins of Identity, page 293. From the entry girl
• The gaggle of dykes that make up Tomlin's road crew.1987 April 11, Ann Fry, “Filmmaker Joan Churchill on the Real & Reluctant Lily Tomlin”, in Gay Community News, page 6. From the entry roadcrew
• However, discordant dykes, locally disrupted in boudins, attest to both late dykes and post-crystallization movement of the carbonate rocks.1986, David P. Gold, Carbonatites, Diatremes, and Ultra-alkaline Rocks in the Oka Area, Quebec: May 22-23, 1986. From the entry boudin
• In ways, these people defined what it was to be a really good lesbian or a really good dyke.1983, Susan Krieger, The Mirror Dance: Identity in a Women's Community, page 14. From the entry blue-collar
• Jump Jamp Jumpit: He jamp ower the dyke.1982, Mary Murray, In My Ain Words An East Neuk Vocabulary, page 5. From the entry jamp
• Appears to be a fine-grained dioritic dyke rock, but is too dirty and stained to be satisfactorily examined.1901, Smithsonian Institution, Board of Regents, Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, page 427. From the entry dyke-rock
• The Nguyễn dynasty allocated a massive financial investment to the domain of hydraulics that made it possible to dyke up the whole Delta.2011, Olivier Tessier, chapter 4, in Mart A. Stewart, Peter A. Coclains, editors, Environmental Change and Agricultural Sustainability in…. From the entry dyke up
• Is it now the children who take precedence, and anyhow, why are leatherdykes, drag queens, radical faeries, and motorcycle dykes offensive on any level?2008, Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, That's Revolting!: Queer Strategies for Resisting Assimilation, page 103. From the entry leatherdyke
• Some of the most political dykes in town had already converted, tossing out their Levi's and Birkenstocks in favor of poodle skirts and heels.1986 [1984], Armistead Maupin, Babycakes (Tales of the City), pages 64–65. From the entry femme
• Yet, I've found hardcore abilism from many hardcore radical dykes that dream of an "ideal" Amazon society (where disabilities just have no place).1982 April 17, Teresa Davidson, “Dealing With Disability”, in Gay Community News, page 3. From the entry abilism
• You muff-diving, bleached-out, burnt-up old dyke.1976, Darwin Porter, Butterflies in the Heart. From the entry muff-diving
• As a dyke is made of igneous rock, it is usually possible to date it by radiometric dating methods, which give an absolute age for the dyke rock.2017, Chris Pellant, Helen Pellant, Geological Structures - An Introductory Field Guide, page 14. From the entry dyke-rock
• He knows the fortifications – crumbling – and beyond the city walls the lands of the Pale, its woods, villages and marshes, its sluices, dykes and canals.2009, Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall, Fourth Estate, published 2010, page 402. From the entry pale
• The summer I answered my first personals, I was a 19-year-old dyke living alone in a three-room bachelorette pad, scant blocks from Main Street, Waltham, Massachusetts.1979 April 7, Pat M. Kuras, “Advertising for Love”, in Gay Community News, page 11. From the entry scant
• We cannot afford to downgrade the lifestyles of other lesbians; we cannot afford to portray lesbians thinly as drunken and bothersome separatists who push their views on "work-within-the-movement" dykes".1978 April 29, Cindy Rizzo, “Unity of Divergence”, in Gay Community News, page 4. From the entry downgrade
• Dyke, having expressed a preference for the tomb as a place of residence, went on his gloomful way shedding green paint on one side and red on the other.1922, Samuel Hopkins Adams, From a Bench in Our Square. From the entry gloomful
• I'm a dyke (butch, all the way) and would like to correspond with a fem lesbian who is tender, fine, smart, witty and all the way into loving other women.1981 April 4, Robin Jackson, “Personal advertisement”, in Gay Community News, page 15. From the entry all the way
• Defendant deposited the refuse from the dyke bottom still further on plaintiff's land, so that the total encroachment now varied from 5 ft. 5 in. to 5 ft. 10 in.1912, Estate Gazette, Limited (publisher), The Estates Gazette Digest of Land and Property Cases, page 249. From the entry dyke bottom

Meaning of dyke

1. noun An earthwork raised to prevent inundation of low land by the sea or flooding rivers.
2. noun A low embankment or stone wall serving as an enclosure and boundary marker.
3. noun A raised causeway.

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How do you use dyke in a sentence?

Dyke is used as a noun and verb. For example: “For quotations using this term, see Citations:dykes.”

What is a short sentence with dyke?

“You muff-diving, bleached-out, burnt-up old dyke.”

What does dyke mean?

Dyke means an earthwork raised to prevent inundation of low land by the sea or flooding rivers.