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- Dike - n. - A ditch; a channel for water made by digging.
- Dike - n. - An embankment to prevent inundations; a levee.
- Dike - n. - A wall of turf or stone.
- Dike - n. - A wall-like mass of mineral matter, usually an intrusion of igneous rocks, filling up rents or fissures in the original strata.
- Dike - v. t. - To surround or protect with a dike or dry bank; to secure with a bank.
- Dike - v. t. - To drain by a dike or ditch.
- Dike - v. i. - To work as a ditcher; to dig.
- Diked - imp. & p. p. - of Dike
- Diker - n. - A ditcher.
- Diker - n. - One who builds stone walls; usually, one who builds them without lime.
- Dike - v. t. - To surround or protect with a dike or dry bank; to secure with a bank.
- Estacade - n. - A dike of piles in the sea, a river, etc., to check the approach of an enemy.
- Dike - v. t. - To drain by a dike or ditch.
- Bank - v. t. - To raise a mound or dike about; to inclose, defend, or fortify with a bank; to embank.
- Powdike - n. - A dike a marsh or fen.
- Bar - n. - A vein or dike crossing a lode.
- Sea breach - - A breaking or overflow of a bank or a dike by the sea.