Dike /(dī)/

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. [Scot.]
4. A wall-like mass of mineral matter, usually an intrusion of igneous rocks, filling up rents or fissures in the original strata. (Geol.)

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.

1. To work as a ditcher; to dig. [Obs.]

   He would thresh and thereto dike and delve.