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Dike   /daɪk/   Listen
noun
Dike  n.  
1.
A ditch; a channel for water made by digging. "Little channels or dikes cut to every bed."
2.
An embankment to prevent inundations; a levee. "Dikes that the hands of the farmers had raised... Shut out the turbulent tides."
3.
A wall of turf or stone. (Scot.)
4.
(Geol.) A wall-like mass of mineral matter, usually an intrusion of igneous rocks, filling up rents or fissures in the original strata.



verb
Dike  v. t.  (past & past part. diked; pres. part. diking)  
1.
To surround or protect with a dike or dry bank; to secure with a bank.
2.
To drain by a dike or ditch.



Dike  v. i.  To work as a ditcher; to dig. (Obs.) "He would thresh and thereto dike and delve."






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"Dike" Quotes from Famous Books



... reach in the river soon after nine o'clock on Friday morning, and could plainly see the town of Cairo, resting upon the flat prairies in the distance. The now yellow, muddy current of the Ohio rolled along the great railroad dike, which had cost one million dollars to erect, and formed a barrier strong enough to resist the rushing waters of the freshets. Across the southern apex of this prairie city could be seen the "Father of Waters," its wide surface bounded on the west by the wilderness. ...
— Four Months in a Sneak-Box • Nathaniel H. Bishop

... carried them this three and thretty year, but they hae aye been like to burn a hole i' my pouch sin' ever they were turned for your admittance. Tak them again, an' gie them to wha you will, and muckle gude may he get o' them. Auld John may dee a beggar in a hay barn, or at the back of a dike, but he sall aye be master o' his ain thoughts an' gie them vent or no, as ...
— The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner • James Hogg

... up to form the margin of the basin, and also among the sands which formed the bottom of it. The walk was conducted all around this singular fountain; and it passed across the outlet, where the stream flowed away from it, over a neat little stone dike, which formed the edge of the ...
— Rollo in Geneva • Jacob Abbott

... towards the sea, we climb up out of the valley, and passing Argam Dike and Grindale, come out upon a vast gently undulating plateau with scarcely a tree to be seen in any direction. A few farms are dotted here and there over the landscape, and towards Filey we can see a windmill; but beyond these it seems as though the fierce winds that assail the ...
— Yorkshire Painted And Described • Gordon Home

... Cambridgeshire fens, between St. Ives, Cambridge, and Ely. In the two parishes of Utterden and Netherden there is no rise of ground which can by any stretch of complaisance be called a hill. The property is bisected by an immense straight dike, which is called the Middle Wash, and which is so sluggish, so straight, so ugly, and so deep, as to impress the mind of a stranger with the ideas of suicide. And there are straight roads and straight dikes, with ugly names on all sides, and passages through the country called droves, ...
— John Caldigate • Anthony Trollope


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