dykes

Nobody cares where you put your nasty fingers, either in dykes or in your boyfriends.

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First Nations said ... remember when rolerderby was great big honkin 'dykes who played to kill?

Texas Rollergirls Rock 'n' Rollerderby MJ 2006

During that time we have had to dash about plugging holes in dykes, holes that might have let a savage foe through to deal a mortal blow.

Dunkirk to Dieppe and Beyond 1942

It makes me laff that Randi Rhodes calls dykes “vagitarians.”

Firedoglake » Party, Party, Party (Unfortunately, Not for Me…) 2006

From a functional point of view, I guess that you could call dykes "wire cutters", just as you could call a shovel a "post hole digger".

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I'm not sure how reliable these memories are, since the issue was never very important to me, but I'm pretty sure that I remember encountering this tool, referred to as dykes/dikes, in my father's toolbox and in the toolboxes of friend's fathers or big brothers, by the time I was 6 or 8 years old, i.e. in the middle 1950s.

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Pending any unfortunate necessity for breaking through the dykes and letting loose the waters, it may be observed in passing that the effectual maintenance of the dykes is a constant anxiety, and entails strenuous exertions.

Dutch Life in Town and Country P. M. Hough

It went straight for two miles, fenced from the fields in many parts by low stone walls without mortar, abhorrent to the eye of Cosmo; in other parts by walls of earth, called dykes, which delighted his very soul.

Warlock o' Glenwarlock George MacDonald 1864

Plus, Vermont was in the same general region as where Alix, Liza and their kind of dykes were also "living in the country".

CLAIMING YOUR PEOPLE: THINK BIG Maggie Jochild 2007

Large infrastructure projects such as dykes, dams, waterways, roads, etc. represent a great threat to the flora and fauna of Argentina.

Paraná flooded savanna 2007