D defs.my
Menu ☰
Entry 7 senses · 3 variants Webster, 1913

Dike

/(dī)/ · IPA /daɪk/
01 n. A ditch; a channel for water made by digging.
  1. 1.
    A ditch; a channel for water made by digging.
    “Little channels or dikes cut to every bed.” — Ray.
  2. 2.
    An embankment to prevent inundations; a levee.
    “Dikes that the hands of the farmers had raised . . . Shut out the turbulent tides.” — Longfellow.
  3. 3.
    A wall of turf or stone.[Scot.]
  4. 4.
    A wall-like mass of mineral matter, usually an intrusion of igneous rocks, filling up rents or fissures in the original strata.(Geol.)
02 v. t. To surround or protect with a dike or dry bank; to secure with a bank.
imp. & p. p. Diked; p. pr. & vb. n. Diking
  1. 1.
    To surround or protect with a dike or dry bank; to secure with a bank.
  2. 2.
    To drain by a dike or ditch.
03 v. i. To work as a ditcher; to dig.
  1. 1.
    To work as a ditcher; to dig.[Obs.]
    “He would thresh and thereto dike and delve.” — Chaucer.