Thesaurus: dike

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1. n. A ditch; a channel for water made by digging.
2. n. An embankment to prevent inundations; a levee.
3. n. A wall of turf or stone.
4. n. A wall-like mass of mineral matter, usually an intrusion of igneous rocks, filling up rents or fissures in the original strata.
5. v. t. To surround or protect with a dike or dry bank; to secure with a bank.
6. v. t. To drain by a dike or ditch.
7. v. i. To work as a ditcher; to dig.
8. n. (slang) offensive term for a lesbian who is noticeably masculine
9. n. a barrier constructed to contain the flow of water or to keep out the sea
10. v. enclose with a dike
11. 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.) A wall-like mass of mineral matter, usually an intrusion of igneous rocks, filling up rents or fissures in the original strata. 1. To surround or protect with a dike or dry bank; to secure with a bank. 2. To drain by a dike or ditch. To work as a ditcher; to dig. [Obs.] He would thresh and thereto dike and delve. Chaucer.
12. A wall-like mass of mineral matter, usually an intrusion ofigneous rocks, filling up rents or fissures in the original strata.