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# dyke

«dyke» in Mova's school dictionary: **a bank of earth built up to keep water back** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (dykes)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A dyke is a bank of earth built up to keep water back. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dyke/#m1)

2) A dyke can also be a ditch that carries water across fields. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dyke/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

in tales a house beside a bank or ditch; in lessons a wall of earth that stops flooding

### examples

- The old woman lived in a house on the dyke. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dyke/#x1)
- Cattle grazed in the fields beside the dykes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dyke/#x2)
- The farmers repaired the dyke after the flood. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dyke/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «dyke» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dyke/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.