Dyke vs. Sill

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;

Sillnoun

(architecture) (also window sill) A horizontal slat which forms the base of a window.

Sillnoun

(construction) A horizontal, structural member of a building near ground level on a foundation or pilings or lying on the ground in earth-fast construction and bearing the upright portion of a frame. Also called a ground plate, groundsill, sole, sole-plate, mudsill. An interrupted sill fits between posts instead of being below and supporting the posts in timber framing.

Sillnoun

(geology) A horizontal layer of igneous rock between older rock beds.

Sillnoun

A piece of timber across the bottom of a canal lock for the gates to shut against.

Sillnoun

(anatomy) A raised area at the base of the nasal aperture in the skull.

Sillnoun

The inner edge of the bottom of an embrasure.

Sillnoun

(UK) A young herring.

Sillnoun

The shaft or thill of a carriage.

Sillnoun

The basis or foundation of a thing; especially, a horizontal piece, as a timber, which forms the lower member of a frame, or supports a structure; as, the sills of a house, of a bridge, of a loom, and the like.

Sillnoun

The shaft or thill of a carriage.

Sillnoun

A young herring.

Sillnoun

structural member consisting of a continuous horizontal timber forming the lowest member of a framework or supporting structure

Sillnoun

(geology) a flat (usually horizontal) mass of igneous rock between two layers of older sedimentary rock