Dike

[daik]

Definition

(verb.) enclose with a dike; 'dike the land to protect it from water'.

Typed by Abe--From WordNet

Definition

(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.

Editor: Robert

Definition

n. a trench or the earth dug out and thrown up: a ditch: a mound raised to prevent inundation: in Scotland a wall (Dry-stane dike a wall without mortar; Fail-dike a wall of turf) sometimes even a thorn-hedge: (geol.) a wall-like mass of igneous rock in the fissures of stratified rocks.—v.t. to surround with a dike or bank.

Editor: Moll

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