Sekirov Dictionary

dike

/daɪk/

noun20

  1. An earthwork raised to prevent inundation of low land by the sea or flooding rivers.
  2. (Scotland) A low embankment or stone wall serving as an enclosure and boundary marker.
  3. An embankment formed by the spoil from the creation of a ditch.
  4. A wall, especially (obsolete outside heraldry) a masoned city or castle wall.
  5. A beaver's dam.
  6. (dialect) Any fence or hedge.
  7. (figurative) Any impediment, barrier, or difficulty.
  8. A body of rock (usually igneous) originally filling a fissure but now often rising above the older stratum as it is eroded away.
  9. (dialect) A fissure in a rock stratum filled with intrusive rock; a fault.
  10. A long, narrow hollow dug from the ground to conduct water.
  11. (historical) A long, narrow hollow dug from the ground to serve as a boundary marker.
  12. (dialect) Any navigable watercourse.
  13. (dialect) Any watercourse.
  14. (dialect) Any small body of water.
  15. A raised causeway.
  16. (dialect) A jetty; a pier.
  17. (slang) Contraction of diagonal cutters.
  18. (Australia, slang) A place to urinate and defecate: an outhouse or lavatory.
  19. (no longer used) Any hollow dug into the ground.
  20. (slang, no longer used) Formalwear or other fashionable dress.

verb8

  1. (Scotland) To surround with a low dirt or stone wall.
  2. To raise a protective earthwork against a sea or river.
  3. To dig, particularly to create a ditch.
  4. To surround with a ditch, to entrench.
  5. (slang) To cut or remove using dikes.
  6. To scour a watercourse.
  7. To steep [fibers] within a watercourse.
  8. (slang, no longer used) To be well dressed.
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