Dike

Dike - Other Definitions

• (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. t.) To surround or protect with a dike or dry bank; to secure with a bank.
  
  
• (v. t.) To drain by a dike or ditch.
  
  
• (v. i.) To work as a ditcher; to dig.