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dike

and dyke
n. a lesbian; a bulldiker. (Rude and derogatory.) Who’s the dike in the cowboy boots?
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2 km each of dike on the right and left banks, making land travel possible for motorists to drive to the coastal villages of Macabebe and Masantol towns in Pampanga and Calumpit and Hagonoy towns in Bulacan province.
Motorists drive on dikes amid road mess
The flow field at a spur dike is coupled with a complex 3D separation of approach flow upstream and a periodic vortex shedding downstream of the spur dike.
The effect of slot on scouring around spur dike at 180 degree bend
Wallrock melting and reaction effects along the Higganum diabase dike in Connecticut: contamination of a continental flood basalt feeder.
The Christmas Cove Dyke of coastal Maine, USA, and regional sources for Early Mesozoic flood basalts in northeastern North America
She said much of the work will not be visible from Route 110 as it was from Route 70 during the south dike project.
More clearing at Wachusett Reservoir; About 3,900 dike trees face removal
As of today, the local farmers have only five days to get the dike rebuilt before facing the danger of crop failure.
Afghan journal
Mr Rickman provided the reference when Mr Dike, who had joined the Ringwood, Hampshire firm in August 1999, applied for a job as associate partner with St James's Place Wealth Management Group plc.
Man loses damages case on job reference
The company has been in Sudbury for the past four months developing a exploration strategy with consultant Scott Jobin-Bevans, managing director, Caracle Creek International Consulting, which has made the initial quartz dike identification.
Sudbury camp still going strong for Pele Mountain
As the hinterland was highly urbanized as seen in Figure 1, the Yodo river dike damage during the Kobe earthquake in 1995 gave a big threat to the society.
Reduction and rehabilitation of seismic damage to river dikes in Japan
I spent three days out on the farther flats, with the incomplete dike always looming in the background.
The death of a wetland: destruction in Isahaya Bay reveals Japan's love of nature as nothing more than myth
Carol Dynkavitch and a legion of friends and relatives struggled to strengthen a dike around her house near Brunkild, Manitoba.
RESIDENTS OF PRAIRIE TOWNS BATTLE TO SHORE UP DIKES
4 meters (see News Release dated March 20, 2006) and a Consejo de Recursos Minerales early drill hole on the Sangre de Cristo concession which cut a mineralized dike was reported as containing between 350 and 400 grams/tonne silver over +10 meters.
Paramount Gold Acquires the Montecristo III concession at their San Miguel Project, Mexico
October 4,2012 (BOR) - One man is reported to have been killed by water flowing over the broken dike in Twic East, the county's Commissioner Dau Akoi Jurkuch told Sudan Tribune on Thursday.
Jonglei: One man killed after dike breaks in Twic East County
The Massachusetts Water Resources Authority is about to begin a project to clear trees, stumps and underbrush at the south dike to address this important issue.
Tree work on south dike begins
has identified Pele's Levack property as being a quartz diorite dike.
Pele Mountain gaining momentum
also were evacuated Saturday after an 8-foot dike burst.
RESIDENTS ORDERED TO EVACUATE FLOODED GRAND FORKS, N.D
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