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n. An embankment of earth and rock built to prevent floods.

n. Chiefly British A low wall, often of sod, dividing or enclosing lands.

n. A barrier blocking a passage, especially for protection.

n. A raised causeway.

n. A ditch; a channel.

n. Geology A long mass of igneous rock that cuts across the structure of adjacent rock.

v. To protect, enclose, or provide with a dike.

v. To drain with dikes or ditches.

n. Offensive Slang Variant of dyke2.

n. The northern English form of ditch.

n. A ditch and bank running alongside each other.

n. A barrier of stone or earth used to hold back water and prevent flooding.

n. A lesbian, especially a manly or unattractive lesbian.

n. A body of once molten igneous rock that was injected into older rocks in a manner that crosses bedding planes.

v. To erect a dike.

n. A ditch; a channel for water made by digging.

n. An embankment to prevent inundations; a levee.

n. A wall of turf or stone.

n. A wall-like mass of mineral matter, usually an intrusion of igneous rocks, filling up rents or fissures in the original strata.

v. To surround or protect with a dike or dry bank; to secure with a bank.

v. To drain by a dike or ditch.

verb-intransitive. To work as a ditcher; to dig.

n. A channel for water made by digging; a ditch; a moat. See ditch.

n. A small pond or pool.

n. A ridge or bank of earth thrown up in excavating canal or a ditch; specifically, such a ridge or bank thrown up to prevent low lands from being overflowed; a continuous dam confining or restraining the waters of a stream or of the sea: as, the Netherlands are defended from the sea by dikes.

n. A low wall or fence of stone or turf, dividing or inclosing fields, etc. A dry dike is such a wall built without mortar. See fail-dike.

n. In geology, a fissure in rocks filled with material which has found its way into it while melted, or when brought by some other means into a fluid or semi-fluid condition.

To make a ditch; dig; delve. See dig.

To dig; dig out; excavate. See dig.

To inclose with a ditch or with ditches.

To furnish with a dike; inclose, restrain, or protect by an embankment: as, to dike a river; to dike a tract of land.

To surround with a stone wall.

v. enclose with a dike

n. a barrier constructed to contain the flow of water or to keep out the sea

n. (slang) offensive term for a lesbian who is noticeably masculine

"Heavy rain can pour into the lake six times faster than it can be drained and at certain levels, the Corps of Engineers says, the dike is almost certain to fail."

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