Dike
Dike (dī) , noun
[Old English dic, dike, diche, ditch, Anglo-Saxon dīc dike, ditch; akin to Dutch dijk dike, German deich, and prob. teich pond, Icelandic dīki dike, ditch, Danish dige; perh. akin to Greek tei^chos (for qei^chos) wall, and even English dough; or perh. to Greek ti^fos pool, marsh. Compare Ditch.]
1.
A ditch; a channel for water made by digging.
Little channels or dikes cut to every bed.
2.
An embankment to prevent inundations; a levee.
Dikes that the hands of the farmers had raised...
Shut out the turbulent tides.
3.
A wall of turf or stone. [Scottish]
4.
(Geology) A wall-like mass of mineral matter, usually an intrusion of igneous rocks, filling up rents or fissures in the original strata.
Dike , transitive verb
[Old English diken, dichen, Anglo-Saxon dīcian 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 , intransitive verb
To work as a ditcher; to dig. [Obsolete]
He would thresh and thereto dike and delve.