Definitions for Dike

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Dike dike

Spelling: [dahyk]

IPA: /daɪk/

Dike is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 24 anagrams from letters in Dike (deik).

Definitions for Dike

noun

1. an embankment for controlling or holding back the waters of the sea or a river:
2. a ditch.
3. a bank of earth formed of material being excavated.
4. a causeway.
5. British Dialect. a low wall or fence, especially of earth or stone, for dividing or enclosing land.
6. an obstacle; barrier.
7. Geology. a long, narrow, cross-cutting mass of igneous rock intruded into a fissure in older rock. a similar mass of rock composed of other kinds of material, as sandstone.
8. Australian Slang. a urinal.
9. dyke2 .
10. a contemptuous term used to refer to a lesbian.

verb (used with object)

1. to furnish or drain with a dike.
2. to enclose, restrain, or protect by a dike:

Origin of Dike

before 900; Middle English dik(e), Old English dīc Old Norse dīki; akin to ditch

Examples for Dike

A whole population of 11 million with every iron in the fire doubling as a finger in a dike.

After that, he dragged the corpse to the dike and threw it in.

They went up to the top of the dike, and waited for the commissioner to come to them.

On my way home from the inn I lay down in the dike and fell asleep.

As they approached the dike her hasty steps quickened to a run.

She stumbled once into the dike; then laughed and went on again.

I jumped the dike and crossed the fields instead of taking the road.

It's a sort of finger in the dike approach with no clear vision, but maybe no one has a clear vision.

The GOP, meanwhile, paints itself as sticking a finger in the dike of massive Obama spending.

I have reason to believe the creek bed above the dike is a rich placer.