This meaning refers to an artificial wall or bank designed to hold back water and protect low-lying land.
The village built a dike along the river.
The storm damaged part of the coastal dike.
This regional meaning refers to a narrow artificial channel that removes or directs water.
Rainwater flowed through the roadside dike.
Workers cleared weeds from the drainage dike.
This geological meaning refers to a wall-like body of rock formed when magma fills a crack and solidifies.
A dark basalt dike crosses the cliff.
The magma cooled inside a vertical dike.
This verb means constructing a dike around land or water to prevent flooding or reclaim an area.
Engineers diked the marsh to create farmland.
The riverbank was diked after repeated floods.
