Dyke vs. Enclosure

Dykenoun

A long, narrow hollow dug from the ground to serve as a boundary marker.

Dykenoun

(UK) A long, narrow hollow dug from the ground to conduct water.

Dykenoun

Any navigable watercourse.

Dykenoun

Any watercourse.

Dykenoun

Any small body of water.

Dykenoun

(obsolete) Any hollow dug into the ground.

Dykenoun

A place to urinate and defecate: an outhouse or lavatory.

Dykenoun

(UK) An embankment formed by the creation of a ditch.

Dykenoun

(obsolete) A city wall.

Dykenoun

A low embankment or stone wall serving as an enclosure and boundary marker.

Dykenoun

Any fence or hedge.

Dykenoun

(UK) An earthwork raised to prevent inundation of low land by the sea or flooding rivers.

Dykenoun

Any impediment, barrier, or difficulty.

Dykenoun

(UK) A beaver's dam.

Dykenoun

A jetty; a pier.

Dykenoun

(UK) A raised causeway.

Dykenoun

A fissure in a rock stratum filled with intrusive rock; a fault.

Dykenoun

A body of rock (usually igneous) originally filling a fissure but now often rising above the older stratum as it is eroded away.

Dykenoun

A lesbian, particularly one with masculine or macho traits or behavior.

Dykeverb

To dig, particularly to create a ditch.

Dykeverb

To surround with a ditch, to entrench.

Dykeverb

To surround with a low dirt or stone wall.

Dykeverb

To raise a protective earthwork against a sea or river.

Dykeverb

To scour a watercourse.

Dykeverb

To steep [fibers] within a watercourse.

Dykenoun

See Dike. The spelling dyke is restricted by some to the geological meaning.

Dykenoun

offensive terms for a lesbian who is noticeably masculine

Dykenoun

a barrier constructed to contain the flow of water or to keep out the sea

Dykeverb

enclose with a dike;

Enclosurenoun

(countable) Something enclosed, i.e. inserted into a letter or similar package.

Enclosurenoun

(uncountable) The act of enclosing, i.e. the insertion or inclusion of an item in a letter or package.

Enclosurenoun

(countable) An area, domain, or amount of something partially or entirely enclosed by barriers.

Enclosurenoun

(uncountable) The act of separating and surrounding an area, domain, or amount of something with a barrier.

Enclosurenoun

The post-feudal process of subdivision of common lands for individual ownership.

Enclosurenoun

(religion) The area of a convent, monastery, etc where access is restricted to community members.

Enclosurenoun

Inclosure. See Inclosure.

Enclosurenoun

artifact consisting of a space that has been enclosed for some purpose

Enclosurenoun

the act of enclosing something inside something else

Enclosurenoun

a naturally enclosed space

Enclosurenoun

something (usually a supporting document) that is enclosed in an envelope with a covering letter

Enclosure

'Enclosure' or 'Inclosure' is a term, used in English landownership, that refers to the appropriation of or enclosing it and by doing so depriving commoners of their ancient rights of access and privilege. Agreements to enclose land could be either through a or process.