Dike

Middle English (Northern) dik, dike, from Old Norse dÃki 'ditch, dike'. More at and doublet of ditch.

Full definition of dike

(plural dikes)

The king of Texcuco advised the building of a great dike, so thick and strong as to keep out the water.

(pejorative) A lesbian, especially a butch lesbian.
(geology) A body of once molten igneous rock that was injected into older rocks in a manner that crosses bedding planes.

(barrier of stone or earth) bank, embankment, dam, levee, breakwater, floodwall, seawall
(long, narrow excavation) ditch

(transitive) To surround or protect with a dike or dry bank; to secure with a bank.

November 16, Next News Focus ECOLOGY: A True-Blue Vision for the Danube Karen F. Schmidt * Romanian scientists are at the forefront of a European effort to balance the protection and exploitation of vast, diverse wetlands B UCHAREST-- In 1983, dictator Nicolae Ceausescu decreed that the Romanian Danube delta, one of Europe's largest wetlands, be diked for growing rice and maize.
1996, September 27, Michael Miner, WVON Won't Take the Bait/Meigs and the Dailies: The Long View, Lakeside water-filtration plants, an 11,000-acre diked airport east of 55th Street, slash-and-bulldoze highway projects through Jackson and Lincoln parks--these and many another grandiose project leapt from the sketchbooks of city planners.