Dyked

The granite hills, here as throughout Midian, were veined and dyked with two different classes of plutonic rock. ❋ Unknown (2003)

The ruddy syenite is dyked and veined by the familiar network of green-black porphyritic trap; the filons are disposed in parallels striking north-south, with a little easting; the dip is westerly (about 35 degrees mag.), and the thickness extends to hundreds of feet, often forming a foundation for the upper cliff. ❋ Unknown (2003)

They crop out of the normal trap-dyked grey granite, and select specimens show the fine panaché lustre of copper. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Sinai, grey granite dyked with decaying porphyritic trap, and everywhere veined with white and various-coloured quartzes. ❋ Unknown (2003)

SO within a while they saw a tower as white as any snow, well matchecold all about, and double dyked. ❋ Unknown (2003)

The formation is of the coarse grey granite general throughout the Province, and it is dyked and sliced by quartz veins of the amorphous type, crystals being everywhere rare in Midian (?) ❋ Unknown (2003)

Up the slope of the dyked land that was the edge of the Dumay farm, reclaimed from the sea, the kitchen door of the house opened and a pale, warm finger of light reached out long over the black earth to touch the boy and the Cidorian. ❋ Greenberg, Martin H. (1990)

Once, as he put his horse to an earthern bank that dyked farmland from the marsh, he saw the white, fretting line of waves far to the east, and, beyond it, a dark shape in the night that was a moored ship waiting for the ebb. ❋ Cornwell, Bernard (1986)

He ran north, then saw that other men, advancing along the low sea wall that dyked Foulness against the tides, had headed him off. ❋ Cornwell, Bernard (1986)

From the bank we could see all along the coast-line, which is dyked continuously, as I have already said. ❋ Childers, Erskine, 1870-1922 (1955)

Maidenhair ferns grew in great profusion, showing that we were getting into warmer climate; streams rushed swiftly under the stone roadway from dyked-up dams to facilitate the irrigation, at which the Chinese are such past-masters. ❋ Edwin John Dingle (1926)

Enormous herds were visible for miles in every direction, bulls roamed here and there, bellowing moodily, cattle and horses by hundreds waded and grazed in the shallow swamps across which the dyked path led. ❋ Harry Alverson Franck (1921)

As my shadow grew ungainly, the dyked path struck across a long wet field against the black soil of which the dozens of white-clad peons with their mattocks gleamed like grains of rice on an ebony surface. ❋ Harry Alverson Franck (1921)

The guide who attended us went along the dyked bank of a lake; there was no other road; and the dyke itself was covered with water, so that the reckless fellow slipped, and fell together with his horse beneath the water. ❋ Cellini, Benvenuto, 1500-1571 (1910)

She had been buried in the shore field, where a square space had been dyked off in the centre for a burial lot because the church was then so far away. ❋ Unknown (1908)

And then they rode to the dykes, and saw them double dyked with full warlike walls; and there were lodged many great lords nigh the walls; and there was great noise of minstrelsy; and the sea beat upon the one side of the walls, where were many ships and mariners 'noise with ` ` hale and how.' ' ❋ Unknown (1903)

A hundred years had rolled down the hillsides of the Gaspereau and out across the Minas tides into the fogs and hollows of the past; and still the patch of dyked land at the creek's mouth was lit by the unsearchable lustre of the "Eye of Gluskâp." ❋ Charles George Douglas Roberts (1901)

The French essential poetry seems to me to flow out into prose works, into their school of romances, and to be least poetical when dyked up into rhythm. ❋ Browning, Elizabeth B (1898)

The dyke has a [leak], [the river] will [burst] through! ❋ Bisxual Yankee Geek (2003)

[That woman] is a dyke. ❋ Matty N (2004)

Example: Hey, Amanda, are you going to the Pride [March] this weekend? Hell ya! And I am definitely not missing the [Dyke] March. Sarah and her girlfriend are riding in the [Dykes on Bikes] contigent. ❋ Portland Dyke (2006)

"Who's the dyke in [the cowboy] boots?" (Rude and derogatory.) (Source: Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. [Spears].Fourth Edition. © 2007. Published by [McGraw Hill]). ❋ Les Good (2012)

Person 1: Hey bro, Where's [Martha]? She been gone for a long time. Is she being dyked on? Person 2: She went to the [bathroom]. Person 1: She's probably being dyked on. [fosho]! ❋ That Raffy Taffy (2013)

[Ordy] said something about a friendly and [overt] sexual [rivalry] between two of the characters, it ended up with them dyking it out. ❋ EDIthePaintMixer (2018)

❋ Gum Shield (2003)

"Omg, is she really a [dyke]?" "[How dare you] think [I'm straight]! I'm a [DYKE], you idiot!!" ❋ Anna (2004)

Hey Jill did u know Sarah was a [dyke]? By the way i heard Miss [Pebbles] was a [dyking] also? ❋ Miss Pebbles (2003)

❋ Super Love (2003)