A ditch; a channel for water made by digging. Little channels or dikes cut to every bed. Ray.
An embankment to prevent inundations; a levee. Dikes that the hands of the farmers had raised . . . Shut out the turbulent tides. Longfellow.
A wall of turf or stone. [Scot.]
A wall-like mass of mineral matter, usually an intrusion of igneous rocks, filling up rents or fissures in the original strata.
To surround or protect with a dike or dry bank; to secure with a bank.
To drain by a dike or ditch.
To work as a ditcher; to dig. [Obs.] He would thresh and thereto dike and delve. Chaucer.
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