DIKE
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Dike (d&ī;), n. [OE. dic, dike, diche, ditch, AS. d&ī;c dike, ditch; akin to D. dijk dike, G. deich, and prob. teich pond, Icel. d&ī;ki dike, ditch, Dan. dige; perh. akin to Gr. tei^chos (for qei^chos) wall, and even E. dough; or perh. to Gr. ti^fos pool, marsh. Cf. Ditch.] 1. A ditch; a channel for water made by digging.
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Little channels or dikes cut to every bed.
Ray.
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2. An embankment to prevent inundations; a levee.
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Dikes that the hands of the farmers had raised . . .
Shut out the turbulent tides.
Longfellow.
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3. A wall of turf or stone. [Scot.]
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4. (Geol.) 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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Dike, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Diked (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Diking.] [OE. diken, dichen, AS. d&ī;cian to dike. See Dike.] 1. To surround or protect with a dike or dry bank; to secure with a bank.
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2. To drain by a dike or ditch.
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Dike, v. i. To work as a ditcher; to dig. [Obs.]
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He would thresh and thereto dike and delve.
Chaucer.
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