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A breaking or overflow of a bank or a dike by the sea.
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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.
n.
A wall-like mass of mineral matter, usually an intrusion of igneous rocks, filling up rents or fissures in the original strata.
n.
A ditcher.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Dike
n.
A wall of turf or stone.
n.
The molten matter within the earth, the source of the material of lava flows, dikes of eruptive rocks, etc.
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.
n.
One who builds stone walls; usually, one who builds them without lime.
v. t.
To drain by a dike or ditch.
n.
A narrow mass of rock intersecting other rocks, and filling inclined or vertical fissures not corresponding with the stratification; a lode; a dike; -- often limited, in the language of miners, to a mineral vein or lode, that is, to a vein which contains useful minerals or ores.
n.
A dike of piles in the sea, a river, etc., to check the approach of an enemy.
n.
A kind of food, made from the almondlike seeds of the Irvingia Barteri, much used by natives of the west coast of Africa; -- called also dika bread.
v. i.
To work as a ditcher; to dig.
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.
n.
A dike a marsh or fen.
v. t.
To surround or protect with a dike or dry bank; to secure with a bank.
imp. & p. p.
of Dike
a.
Of or pertaining to trap rock; as, a trap dike.
n.
See Dike. The spelling dyke is restricted by some to the geological meaning.
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