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DIKES
Noun
dikes
plural of dike
Anagrams
• siked, skied
Source: Wiktionary
DIKE
Dike, n. Etym: [OE. dic, dike, diche, ditch, AS. d dike, ditch; akin to D. dijk dike, G. deich, and prob. teich pond, Icel. d dike, ditch, Dan. dige; perh. akin to Gr. dough; or perh. to Gr. Ditch.]
1. A ditch; a channel for water made by digging. Little channels or dikes cut to every bed. Ray.
2. An embankment to prevent inundations; a levee. Dikes that the hands of the farmers had raised . . . Shut out the turbulent tides. Longfellow.
3. A wall of turf or stone. [Scot.]
4. (Geol.)
Definition: A wall-like mass of mineral matter, usually an intrusion of igneous rocks, filling up rents or fissures in the original strata.
Dike, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Diked; p. pr. & vb. n. Diking.] Etym: [OE. diken, dichen, AS. dician to dike. See Dike.]
1. To surround or protect with a dike or dry bank; to secure with a bank.
2. To drain by a dike or ditch.
Dike, v. i.
Definition: To work as a ditcher; to dig. [Obs.] He would thresh and thereto dike and delve. Chaucer.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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