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Dike :: Dike (v. t.) To surround or protect with a dike or dry bank; to secure with a bank.

Dike :: Dike (n.) A wall of turf or stone.

Dike :: Dike (n.) A ditch; a channel for water made by digging.

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..

Magma :: Magma (n.) The molten matter within the earth, the source of the material of lava flows, dikes of eruptive rocks, etc..

Diker :: Diker (n.) A ditcher.

Dike :: Dike (v. t.) To drain by a dike or ditch.

Digue :: Digue (n.) A bank; a dike.

Dyke :: Dyke (n.) See Dike. The spelling dyke is restricted by some to the geological meaning.

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..

Dike :: Dike (v. i.) To work as a ditcher; to dig.

Estacade :: Estacade (n.) A dike of piles in the sea, a river, etc., to check the approach of an enemy..

Matweed :: Matweed (n.) A name of several maritime grasses, as the sea sand-reed (Ammophila arundinacea) which is used in Holland to bind the sand of the seacoast dikes (see Beach grass, under Beach); also, the Lygeum Spartum, a Mediterranean grass of similar habit..

Dike :: Dike (n.) An embankment to prevent inundations; a levee.

Diked :: Diked (imp. & p. p.) of Dik.

Agistment :: Agistment (n.) A charge or rate against lands; as, an agistment of sea banks, i. e., charge for banks or dikes..

Trap :: Trap (a.) Of or pertaining to trap rock; as, a trap dike..

Diker :: Diker (n.) One who builds stone walls; usually, one who builds them without lime..

Bar :: Bar (n.) A vein or dike crossing a lode.

Sea Breach :: Sea breach () A breaking or overflow of a bank or a dike by the sea.

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