Dyke vs. Bulldagger — What's the Difference?

Variant of dike1.

A lesbian.

Used as a disparaging term for a lesbian.

(historical) A long, narrow hollow dug from the ground to serve as a boundary marker.

A long, narrow hollow dug from the ground to conduct water.

(dialect) Any navigable watercourse.

(dialect) Any watercourse.

(dialect) Any small body of water.

(obsolete) Any hollow dug into the ground.

A place to urinate and defecate: an outhouse or lavatory.

An embankment formed by the creation of a ditch.

(obsolete) A city wall.

A low embankment or stone wall serving as an enclosure and boundary marker.

(dialect) Any fence or hedge.

An earthwork raised to prevent inundation of low land by the sea or flooding rivers.

(figuratively) Any impediment, barrier, or difficulty.

A beaver's dam.

(dialect) A jetty; a pier.

A raised causeway.

A fissure in a rock stratum filled with intrusive rock; a fault.

(geology) A body of rock (usually igneous) originally filling a fissure but now often rising above the older stratum as it is eroded away.

A lesbian, particularly one with masculine or butch traits or behavior.

A non-heterosexual woman.

To dig, particularly to create a ditch.

To surround with a ditch, to entrench.

To surround with a low dirt or stone wall.

To raise a protective earthwork against a sea or river.

To scour a watercourse.

To steep [fibers] within a watercourse.

See Dike. The spelling dyke is restricted by some to the geological meaning.

Offensive terms for a lesbian who is noticeably masculine

A barrier constructed to contain the flow of water or to keep out the sea

Enclose with a dike;