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To: DuncanWaring
A "dike" is a ditch.
A "dyke" is a small levee or dam.
8 posted on 02/20/2006 5:00:50 PM PST by rmlew (Sedition and Treason are both crimes, not free speech.)
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To: rmlew

A "dyke" is a small levee or dam.
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How does a small levee or dam ride a motorcycle?


16 posted on 02/20/2006 5:40:04 PM PST by Phil Connors
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To: rmlew; DuncanWaring
A "dike" is a ditch.
A "dyke" is a small levee or dam.

Dictionary.com says that dike and dyke both mean:

1. a. An embankment of earth and rock built to prevent floods.
b. Chiefly British. A low wall, often of sod, dividing or enclosing lands.

2. A barrier blocking a passage, especially for protection.
3. A raised causeway.
4. A ditch; a channel.
5. Geology. A long mass of igneous rock that cuts across the structure of adjacent rock.

In any case it was a Dutch boy in the story who put his finger in the dike, not a Danish boy.

28 posted on 02/20/2006 8:47:52 PM PST by wideminded
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To: rmlew
A "dike" is a ditch.
A "dyke" is a small levee or dam.

From that first line, I thought you were writing a poem.

61 posted on 02/21/2006 8:32:17 AM PST by AmishDude
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