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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.
The side of a levee in Sacramento, California. A levee (/ ˈ l ɛ v i / or / ˈ l ɛ v eɪ /), [a] [1] dike (American English), dyke (British English; see spelling differences), embankment, floodbank, or stop bank is an elevated ridge, natural or artificial, alongside the banks of a river, often intended to protect against flooding of the area adjoining the river.
South of the A66 road the dyke had a bank up to 1.5 metres (4 ft 11 in) high and 10m wide with a ditch 7 metres (23 ft) wide and 1 metre (3 ft 3 in) deep. On the eastern side of the ditch traces could be seen of a counterscarp bank approximately 5m wide. [2] Parts of the dyke are possibly a double dyke (two banks with a ditch in the middle) as ...
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. Ditches are commonly seen around farmland , especially in areas that have required drainage, such as The Fens in eastern England and much of the Netherlands .
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.
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.
Dike (geology), formations of magma or sediment that cut through and across the layering of adjacent rocks; Dike (mythology), Dikē, the Greek goddess of moral justice; Dikes, diagonal pliers, also called side-cutting pliers, a hand tool used by electricians and others; Dyke (automobile company), established 1899
Dike – A sheet of rock that is formed in a fracture of a pre-existing rock body; Dirt cone – Depositional glacial feature of ice or snow with an insulating layer of dirt; Dissected plateau – Plateaus area that has been severely eroded so that the relief is sharp; Doab – Land between two converging, or confluent, rivers