Read full poem →A slur for boys, just crizzled and that's all.
Frost shoots his needles by the small dyke side,
And snow in scarce a feather's seen to fall.
Dictionary Entry
(usually derogatory) A lesbian, particularly one with masculine or butch traits or behavior.
Origin
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Common Phrases
. dykeshow dykedyke vandyke greatdyke blackdyke thomas
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Poetry examples for “dyke”
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Read full poem →And yellowhammers gathering the dry bents
By the dyke side, on stilly moor or fen,
Feathered with love and nature's good intents?
Read full poem →To say her prayers, douce, honest woman!
Aft yont the dyke she's heard you bummin,
Wi' eerie drone;
Read full poem →No force for that, for it is order’d so,
That I may leap both hedge and dyke full well.
I am not now in France, to judge the wine;
Read full poem →north and west by Park River, and containing 46 acres, is an or-
nament to the city. Colt’s Dyke, one of the greatest improve-
Read full poem →ments in the city, is 8,698 feet long, from 40 to 50 wide at the
top, and cost about $80,000. This dyke encloses 123 acres of
some of the most valuable land in the city.