DIKE

I. noun see: ditch Date: 13th century an artificial watercourse ; ditch , 2. a bank usually of earth constructed to control or confine water ; levee , a barrier preventing passage especially of something undesirable, 3. a raised causeway, a tabular body of igneous rock that has been injected while molten into a fissure, II. transitive verb (~d; diking) Date: 14th century to surround or protect with a ~, to drain by a ~, ~r noun see: dyke