Dike

Part of speech: noun (n.)

1. A ditch; a channel for water made by digging. Little channels or dikes cut to every bed. Ray.

2. An embankment to prevent inundations; a levee. Dikes that the hands of the farmers had raised . . . Shut out the turbulent tides. Longfellow.

3. A wall of turf or stone. [Scot.]

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

Part of speech: verb (v.)

1. To surround or protect with a dike or dry bank; to secure with a bank.

2. To drain by a dike or ditch.

Part of speech: verb (v.)

To work as a ditcher; to dig. [Obs.] He would thresh and thereto dike and delve. Chaucer.