dykes

• “Nobody cares where you put your nasty fingers, either in dykes or in your boyfriends.”

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• “First Nations said ... remember when rolerderby was great big honkin 'dykes who played to kill?”

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• “During that time we have had to dash about plugging holes in dykes, holes that might have let a savage foe through to deal a mortal blow.”

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• “It makes me laff that Randi Rhodes calls dykes “vagitarians.””

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• “From a functional point of view, I guess that you could call dykes "wire cutters", just as you could call a shovel a "post hole digger".”

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• “I'm not sure how reliable these memories are, since the issue was never very important to me, but I'm pretty sure that I remember encountering this tool, referred to as dykes/dikes, in my father's toolbox and in the toolboxes of friend's fathers or big brothers, by the time I was 6 or 8 years old, i.e. in the middle 1950s.”

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• “Pending any unfortunate necessity for breaking through the dykes and letting loose the waters, it may be observed in passing that the effectual maintenance of the dykes is a constant anxiety, and entails strenuous exertions.”

  Dutch Life in Town and Country

• “It went straight for two miles, fenced from the fields in many parts by low stone walls without mortar, abhorrent to the eye of Cosmo; in other parts by walls of earth, called dykes, which delighted his very soul.”

  Warlock o' Glenwarlock

• “Plus, Vermont was in the same general region as where Alix, Liza and their kind of dykes were also "living in the country".”

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• “Large infrastructure projects such as dykes, dams, waterways, roads, etc. represent a great threat to the flora and fauna of Argentina.”

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