dike

dike is a Noun

Definition:

[1] A ditch; a channel for water made by digging. Little channels or dikes cut to every bed. Ray.

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

[3] A wall of turf or stone. [Scot.]

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

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