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   Dike (dī), n. [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.
   
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   Little channels or dikes cut to every bed. Ray.
   
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   2. An embankment to prevent inundations; a levee.
   
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   Dikes that the hands of the farmers had raised . . .
   
   Shut out the turbulent tides. Longfellow.
   
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   3. A wall of turf or stone. [Scot.]
   
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   4. (Geol.) 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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   Dike, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Diked (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Diking.] [OE. diken, dichen, AS. dīcian to dike. See Dike.]
   1. To surround or protect with a dike or dry bank; to secure with a bank.
   
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   2. To drain by a dike or ditch.
   
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   Dike, v. i. To work as a ditcher; to dig. [Obs.]
   
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   He would thresh and thereto dike and delve. Chaucer.
   
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