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Webster's Dictionary (1865)

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Dike

Dike, v. i.

verbintransitive

To dig. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Dike, n.

noun

n. [A.-S. dīc, D. dijk; Fr. digue, Sp. dique, It. diga. See DIG.]

  1. A ditch; a channel for water made by digging. “Little channels or dikes cut to every bed.” Ray.
  2. A mound thrown up to prevent low lands from being inundated by the sea or a river.

*Dikes that the hand of the farmer had raised with labor incessant Shut out the turbulent tides. Longfellow.* 3. (Geol.) A wall-like mass of mineral matter, usually an intrusion of igneous rocks, filling up rents or fissures in the original strata. Page.

Dike, v. t.

verbtransitive

[imp. & p. p. DIKED (dikt); p. pr. & vb. n. DIKING.]

Sense 1. To surround or protect with a dike; to secure with a bank.

Sense 2. To drain by a dike or dikes.