Synonyms
Examples for "dyke"
Examples for "dyke"
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The Makololo guided the canoes admirably through the opening in the dyke.
2
No time was lost in breaking through the dyke in several places.
3
The flood-battered Changkai dyke near Fuzhou suffered a fresh breach on Wednesday.
4
I read in the paper that you're some sort of fucking dyke.
5
On either side of the dyke was the water, black and silent.
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I can hear the lazy sea a short distance over the embankment.
2
And a moment later Drusus saw the general coming up the embankment.
3
He had paused on the brink of a crevasse in the embankment.
4
The embankment dropped several feet down into the water weeds and mangroves.
5
The city bus was almost as long as the embankment was high.
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He was not worried that the water would actually breach the dike.
2
What's going to happen to the dike, after two months of floodwater?
3
If the men could touch the dike before the fire, they won.
4
Your argument about the perpendicularity of the dike strikes me as good.
5
Grant guessed it would take four more passes to open the dike.
1
The next day they were at the prince's levée, and introduced by Edward.
2
When the king's levée was announced, the persons not presented withdrew.
3
It's a long time since you have been at a levée.
4
The Queen held a levée on Friday, for gentlemen only.
5
Who would go to a levée in a straw hat?
1
The chimneys of the Eel's Foot came into view along the floodbank.
2
Other spectators were already crowding along the high floodbank, between the flares.
3
I know where we can borrow a boat on the floodbank down there.
4
It said new information about the state of the nearby floodbank delayed the re-start.
5
RNZ reporter Tim Brown is on the floodbank in Gore.
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There have been 13 trucks and three diggers working to repair the stopbank.
2
The council will buy the land to put a new stopbank along the river banks.
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Photo: RNZ The Bay of Plenty Regional Council hoped to finish work on the stopbank tonight.
4
Work has started to repair the stopbank breach.
5
Sir Michael Cullen is heading an independent review into the breach of the Rangitaiki River stopbank.
6
He said an investigation would be needed to determine how the breach in the Rangitāiki River's stopbank occurred.
7
Whakatāne District Council said it had been advised the amount of rain forecast would not threaten the stopbank.
8
Dairy farmer breaks stopbank without consent.
9
He says a critical part of the inquiry will be what led to the failure of the stopbank.
10
For 30 years, Reuben Cohen has owned his home on College Road, near where the Rangitāiki river stopbank breached.
11
But it says the reasons why a crucial stopbank collapsed are complex and no one thing would have prevented what happened.
12
The Whangarei Council is considering prosecuting dairy farmers who cut into a stopbank to let flood waters out following recent storms.
13
The West Coast Regional Council has given the the go-ahead to rebuild the Waiho River stopbank destroyed in flooding two weeks ago.
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Richard Molloy said parts of his farm on the flats beside the Waiho River were two-and-a half-metres underwater after the stopbank breached.
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It comes after a stopbank burst near their properties on Friday and another 150mm of rain fell on the district last night.
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The Edgecumbe homes that were red stickered after a wall of water burst through the town's stopbank in April are finally being demolished.