Polder vs Dyke - What's the difference?
polder | dyke |
(geography) An area of ground reclaimed from a sea or lake by means of dikes.
*1999 , (Philipp Blom), translating Geert Mak, Amsterdam: A Brief Life of the City , Vintage 2001, p. 43:
*:The patron saint of the Oude Kerk, Saint Nicolaas, the ‘water saint’, was also very popular, as he protected the sailors and those living on the polders from the dangers of the sea.
(Australia, slang) A toilet.
(UK) A ditch (rarely also refers to similar natural features, and to one natural valley, Devil's Dyke, Sussex, due to a legend that the devil dug it).
(UK, mainly S England) An earthwork consisting of a ditch and a parallel rampart.
(British) An embankment to prevent inundation, or a causeway.
(UK, mainly Scotland and N England) A mound of earth, stone- or turf-faced, sometimes topped with hedge planting, or a hedge alone, used as a fence.
(UK, mainly Scotland and N England) A dry-stone wall usually forming a boundary to a wood, field or garden.
(British, geology) A body of once molten igneous rock that was injected into older rocks in a manner that crosses bedding planes.
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As nouns the difference between polder and dyke
is that polder is an area of ground reclaimed from a sea or lake by means of dikes while dyke is an alternative spelling of lang=en.polder
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(en noun)dyke
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(wikipedia dyke)Etymology 1
Variant of (dike).Noun
(en noun)- 1977 , In Cubbaroo's dim distant past
They built a double dyke.
Back to back in the yard it stood
An architectural dream in wood''
— Ian Slack-Smith, ''The Passing of the Twin Seater'', from ''The Cubbaroo Tales'', 1977. Quoted in ''Aussie Humour , Macmillan, 1988, ISBN 0-7251-0553-4, page 235.
