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Linear earthworks may have a ditch alongside which provides the source of earth for the bank and an extra obstacle. There may be a single ditch, a ditch on both sides or no ditch at all. Earthworks range in length from a few tens of metres to more than 80 km. Linear earthworks are also known as dykes (also spelt dike), or "ranch boundaries".
A dyke, in contrast, is always manmade and can be either a bank or a ditch. 82.10.103.233 20:37, 9 February 2007 (UTC) - or a combination of bank and ditch as in Offa's Dyke, for example. When used as a boundary marker, a dike is normally dug on the owner's propery, with one lip of the excavation adjacant to the neighbour's land.
A ditch is a small to moderate trench created to channel water. A ditch can be used for drainage , to drain water from low-lying areas, alongside roadways or fields, or to channel water from a more distant source for plant irrigation .
Meander – One of a series of curves in a channel of a matured stream; Misfit stream – River too large or too small to have eroded the valley or cave passage in which it flows; Narrows – Restricted land or water passage; Oxbow lake – U-shaped lake or pool left by an ancient river meander; Point bar – Landform related to streams and rivers
The Western terminus of the Scots' Dyke. The Scots' Dike or dyke is a three and a half mile / 5.25 km long linear earthwork, constructed by the English and the Scots in 1552 [1] to mark the division of the Debatable Lands and thereby settle the exact boundary between the Kingdom of Scotland and the Kingdom of England.
The earthwork, which was up to 65 feet (20 m) wide (including its flanking ditch) and 8 feet (2.4 m) high, traversed low ground, hills and rivers. Today it is protected as a scheduled monument . Some of its route is followed by the Offa's Dyke Path , a 177-mile (285 km) long-distance footpath that runs between Liverpool Bay in the north and the ...
Deil's Dyke, Pict's Dyke or Celt's Dyke [1] [2] in south-west lowland Scotland is a linear earthwork that roughly follows the contours that divide upland pasture from lowland arable land, effectively acting like the head-dykes of medieval and later times although its true purpose has not been settled.
It may be related to the late-19th-century slang use of dike ("ditch") for the vulva. [9] Bull ("male cattle") being used in the sense of "masculine" and "aggressive" (e.g., in bullish ), a bulldyke would have implied (with similar levels of offensiveness) a "masculine cunt ".