Definition of dike

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Dike (n.) A wall-like mass of mineral matter, usually an intrusion of igneous rocks, filling up rents or fissures in the original strata..

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Dike :: Dike (n.) A wall of turf or stone.
Dike :: Dike (v. i.) To work as a ditcher; to dig.
Magma :: Magma (n.) The molten matter within the earth, the source of the material of lava flows, dikes of eruptive rocks, etc..
Digue :: Digue (n.) A bank; a dike.
Powdike :: Powdike (n.) A dike a marsh or fen.
Trap :: Trap (a.) Of or pertaining to trap rock; as, a trap dike..
Agistment :: Agistment (n.) A charge or rate against lands; as, an agistment of sea banks, i. e., charge for banks or dikes..
Estacade :: Estacade (n.) A dike of piles in the sea, a river, etc., to check the approach of an enemy..
Diked :: Diked (imp. & p. p.) of Dik.
Dike :: Dike (v. t.) To drain by a dike or ditch.
Bar :: Bar (n.) A vein or dike crossing a lode.
Dike :: Dike (n.) A wall-like mass of mineral matter, usually an intrusion of igneous rocks, filling up rents or fissures in the original strata..
Dike :: Dike (n.) An embankment to prevent inundations; a levee.
Whinstone :: Whinstone (n.) A provincial name given in England to basaltic rocks, and applied by miners to other kind of dark-colored unstratified rocks which resist the point of the pick. -- for example, to masses of chert. Whin-dikes, and whin-sills, are names sometimes given to veins or beds of basalt..
Sea Breach :: Sea breach () A breaking or overflow of a bank or a dike by the sea.
Levy :: Levy (v. t.) To erect, build, or set up; to make or construct; to raise or cast up; as, to levy a mill, dike, ditch, a nuisance, etc..
Vein :: Vein (n.) A narrow mass of rock intersecting other rocks, and filling inclined or vertical fissures not corresponding with the stratification; a lode; a dike; -- often limited, in the language of miners, to a mineral vein or lode, that is, to a vein which contains useful minerals or ores..
Bank :: Bank (v. t.) To raise a mound or dike about; to inclose, defend, or fortify with a bank; to embank..
Dike :: Dike (v. t.) To surround or protect with a dike or dry bank; to secure with a bank.
Dyke :: Dyke (n.) See Dike. The spelling dyke is restricted by some to the geological meaning.
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