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Meanings of dikes in English
Spanish
sureste peninsular Catalan
dics de contenció - murcia Location of hydrological-forestry restoration dikes.
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Usage of dikes in English
1
He felt the old mood seep through the dikes of his gayety.
2
Many tide gates were set in the dikes, often with double trunks.
3
If the ocean made dikes, it is thus that it would build.
4
Inside the dikes and ditches are filled with a purely sweet-water vegetation.
5
A valuable edible seaweed industry was carried on outside the sea dikes.
6
It's a lonely path to the village, and the dikes are full.
7
Like Holland, Daddy said, it had dikes to keep the water out.
8
Everywhere there were the same rectangular fields, smooth canals, and bushy dikes.
9
Between these two masonry dikes was to be placed a floating breakwater.
10
And when the warping dikes have got their work in, what then?
11
This is to be supplemented by levees, dikes, bulkheads and beach strengthening.
12
Large masses of rose-coloured and icy-white quartz project from the surface in dikes.
13
The original cost of the dikes of Pelworm is not stated.
14
The dikes had been opened and part of the country flooded.
15
In the December 12 coup, the dikes were barely defended successfully.
16
But these warping dikes bring in a new state of affairs.
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United Kingdom
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