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Webster 1913 Edition
Dike
Dike
(dī)
, Noun.
[OE.
dic
, dike
, diche
, ditch, AS. dīc
dike, ditch; akin to D. dijk
dike, G. deich
, and prob. teich
pond, Icel. dīki
dike, ditch, Dan. dige
; perh. akin to Gr. τεῖχοσ
(for θεῖχος
) wall, and even E. dough
; or perh. to Gr. τῖφοσ
pool, marsh. Cf. 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.)
A wall-like mass of mineral matter, usually an intrusion of igneous rocks, filling up rents or fissures in the original strata.
Dike
,Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Diked
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Diking
.] 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
,Verb.
I.
To work as a ditcher; to dig.
[Obs.]
He would thresh and thereto
dike
and delve. Chaucer.
Webster 1828 Edition
Dike
DIKE
,Noun.
1.
A ditch; an excavation made in the earth by digging, of greater length than breadth, intended as a reservoir of water, a drain, or for other purpose.2.
A mound of earth, of stones, or of other materials, intended to prevent low lands, from being inundated by the sea or a river. The low countries of Holland are thus defended by dikes.3.
A vein of basalt, greenstone or other stony substance.DIKE
,Verb.
T.
DIKE
,Verb.
I.