1. Noun
A ditch; a channel for water made by digging.
2. Noun
An embankment to prevent inundations; a levee.
3. Noun
A wall of turf or stone.
4. Noun
A wall-like mass of mineral matter, usually an intrusion of igneous rocks, filling up rents or fissures in the original strata.
5. Verb
To surround or protect with a dike or dry bank; to secure with a bank.
6. Verb
To drain by a dike or ditch.
7. Verb
To work as a ditcher; to dig.
8. Noun
a barrier constructed to contain the flow of water or to keep out the sea
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