Dykes is valid Scrabble Word

Is dykes a scrabble word?
Official Scrabble Players Dictionary YES
Official Tournament and Club Word List YES
Collins Scrabble Words YES
Is dykes valid Words with Friends?
Words with Friends YES

5 letters word
13 points in Scrabble
12 points in WWF

Definitions for DYKES in dictionary:

VERB:

DYKE, to furnish with an embankment, also DIKE
provide (land) with a wall or embankment to prevent flooding.

NOUN:

a lesbian.
a long wall or embankment built to prevent flooding from the sea.
a low wall or earthwork serving as a boundary or defence
a causeway.
a ditch or watercourse.
an intrusion of igneous rock cutting across existing strata.
a toilet.

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

to dike

Words related to DYKES

dyke12 dyked14 dyking15

Words that contain DYKES

vandykes19 bulldykes19 klondykes21

How to use DYKES in a sentence

Weeds made a carpet on the avenue, and the dykes were broke by cattle at a dozen places.
I thanked her, clapped on my dripping bonnet, and made for the dykes beyond the garden.
To protect the fields from inundation dykes were built.
Dykes, dams and canals innumerable are in consequence constructed throughout this part of the country, to preserve it as much as possible from such calamities.
The worms that gnawed through the Dutch dykes did Holland more damage than she experienced from the armies of Louis XIV.
When she started for home she went in the direction of Double Dykes, her old home, instead.
The water was shallow, and once or twice in great swamps dykes had to be built that the boats might be floated across.
Presently you reach the Great Highway, which traverses the dykes of sand raised by wind and water as barriers against the ocean.
The train ran now across the marshes, flat and green, chequered with dykes, confined to the right by the steep brim of a sea-wall.
On this country we found abundance of waterholes, some of which were divided from each other by sandstone dykes and contained fresh, and others brackish, water.

The ranges on the left bank had on them dykes like artificial ones, which run at different places across the hills.
They will open the dykes and flood all the country but the main road, and then we can hold the enemy in check.
Its inroads have to be guarded against by great dykes and by the never-ceasing care and industry of the nation.
At any rate, they heard only the water lapping in the dykes and the wind that howled over the wastes around.
It is generally between the 1st and 16th of July that it is decided to break through the dykes.
The mud and finer particles rise towards the surface, and are deposited upon the land after the opening of the dykes.
He looked after the maintenance of canals and dykes, he tilled the ground, he sowed, he reaped, he garnered the grain for his lord and for himself.
The waters of the inundation must have been confined by dykes, and made to flow where the cultivator needed them, at a very remote date.
We usually found them feeding in fields not far from the river or in flooded rice dykes, and very often sitting in pairs on the sand banks near the water.
William opened the dykes and laid the country under water, and negotiated secretly with the emperor and with Spain.
The same year he was appointed to the position of Inspector of Dykes for Jerichow.
My walks are rather circumscribed, inasmuch as the dykes are the only promenades.
These dykes are for retaining the water when it is required, and to permit of its being drawn off when the inundation is no longer necessary.
The season had been quite wet enough, particularly down on the swamp land, and but yesterday Bles had viewed his dykes with apprehension for the black pool scowled about them.
It might not rain, but the safest thing would be to work at those dykes, so he started for spade and hoe.

Similar words containing DYKE without suffix s

dyke12 dyked14 dykey16 vandyke18 bulldyke18 klondyke20 vandyked20 vandykes19 bulldykes19 klondyked22 klondyker21 klondykes21 klondykers22

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