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noun

Dike n.

A ditch; a channel for water made by digging. "Little channels or dikes cut to every bed."

An embankment to prevent inundations; a levee. "Dikes that the hands of the farmers had raised... Shut out the turbulent tides."

A wall of turf or stone. (Scot.)

(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)

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

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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... imperii: qui nescit dissimulare, nescit regnare. Every liege subject is bound to speak the whole truth to the king, but there is nae reciprocity of obligation—and for Steenie having been whiles a dike-louper at a time, is it for you, who are his goldsmith, and to whom, I doubt, he awes an uncomatable sum, to cast ...

— Sir Walter Scott - (English Men of Letters Series) • Richard H. Hutton

... then went on: "we must get between the hut, there is only one, and the low wall that borders the canal separating the Nest from the slave camp, and, if the drawbridge is up and no other means can be found, we must swim the dike, dispose of the sentry there also and gain the slave camp. Then we must try to free some of the slaves and send them round through the garden into the morass to fire the reeds, should the wind blow ...

— The People Of The Mist • H. Rider Haggard

... 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 basin on the ...

— Rollo in Geneva • Jacob Abbott

... his men he sent in to Malapi on horseback with a hurry-up call to Emerson Crawford, president of the company, for tools, machinery, men, and teams. The others he put to salvaging the engine and accessories and to throwing up an earth dike around the sump hole as a barrier against the escaping crude. All through the night he fought impotently against this giant that had burst loose from its prison two thousand feet below the surface of ...

— Gunsight Pass - How Oil Came to the Cattle Country and Brought a New West • William MacLeod Raine

... the Army has contracted to close all breaks in the dike system before the next season of high water. A most thorough and elaborate survey of the whole situation has been made and embodied in a report with recommendations for future flood control, which will be presented to ...

— Complete State of the Union Addresses from 1790 to the Present • Various

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