DIKE
\dˈa͡ɪk], \dˈaɪk], \d_ˈaɪ_k]\
Definitions of DIKE
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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A trench or the earth dug out and thrown up: a ditch: a mound raised to prevent inundation: (geol.) a wall-like mass of igneous rock in the fissures of stratified rocks.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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A ditch; the bank of earth thrown up in digging it; a mound of earth, stones, or other materials, to prevent low lands from being inundated by the sea or a river; a perpendicular wall-like mass of igneous rock occupying the rents or fissures of stratified rocks.
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A wall of stones without cement.
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To surround with a dike; to secure by a bank; to ditch.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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n. [Anglo-Saxon] A ditch; a channel for water made by digging;—a mound thrown up to prevent low lands from being inundated by the sea or a river;—a wall-like mass of mineral matter, filling up fissures in the original strata or stratified rocks.
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