dikes's Usage Examples:

Between the dikes and the stream lie " forelands " (interwaarden), which are usually submerged in winter, and frequently lie 1 or 2 yds, higher than the country within the dikes.

The harbour, which is important as a harbour of refuge, is protected on the east by land, and the Federal government has strengthened this protection by dikes and groins and other sand-catching devices; it has five lighthouses.

The mineral resources of Holland give no encouragement to industrial activity, with the exception of the coal-mining in Limburg, the smelting of iron ore in a few furnaces in Overysel and Gelderland, the use of stone and gravel in the making of dikes and roads, and of clay in brickworks and potteries, the quarrying of stone at St Pietersberg, 'c.

geochemistry of the Mesozoic basic regional dikes of western Dronning Maud Land, Antarctica.

The sedimentary rocks are affected by many dikes and sheets of igneous rock, some of the latter being extrusive and some intrusive.

Sea-aster flourishes in the Wadden of Friesland and Groningen, the Dollart and the Zeeland estuaries, giving place nearer the shore to sandspurry (Spergularia), or sea-poa or floating meadow grass (Glyceria maritima), which grows up to the dikes, and affords pasture for cattle and sheep.

Many new wetlands have recently been re-created mainly by simply bunging up the drainage dikes or occasionally scraping areas.

as Antiochia, was now refortified with dikes by Spasines, and christened Spasinu Charax (the wall of Spasines), or simply Charax (Plin.

The shore and the entrance to the canal are strengthened by huge dikes.

Neuwerk, containing some marshland protected by dikes, has two lighthouses and a lifeboat station.

dyke northern Mali, Oxfam has assisted communities in building dikes inside small pastoral lakes.

All the volcanic rocks of these islands are submarine stratified tuffs which are penetrated here and there by andesite or diabase dikes.

The basalt again broke out, through dikes that cut even the Mourne granite, and some of the best-known columnar masses of lava overlie the red deposits of iron-ore and mark this second basaltic epoch.

Synonyms:

dyke, tribade, butch, lesbian, gay woman,

Antonyms:

pull out, recede, uncover, unsheathe,