DIKE


Meaning of DIKE in English

noun a wall of turf or stone.

2. dike ·vt to drain by a dike or ditch.

3. dike ·noun a ditch; a channel for water made by digging.

4. dike ·noun an embankment to prevent inundations; a levee.

5. dike ·vi to work as a ditcher; to dig.

6. dike ·vt to surround or protect with a dike or dry bank; to secure with a bank.

7. dike ·noun 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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