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A breaking or overflow of a bank or a dike by the sea.
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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.
The molten matter within the earth, the source of the material of lava flows, dikes of eruptive rocks, etc.
n.
A wall of turf or stone.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Dike
n.
A ditcher.
n.
A dike a marsh or fen.
v. t.
To surround or protect with a dike or dry bank; to secure with a bank.
v. t.
To drain by a dike or ditch.
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.
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.
a.
Of or pertaining to trap rock; as, a trap dike.
v. i.
To work as a ditcher; to dig.
n.
A dike of piles in the sea, a river, etc., to check the approach of an enemy.
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.
imp. & p. p.
of Dike
n.
An embankment to prevent inundations; a levee.
n.
One who builds stone walls; usually, one who builds them without lime.
n.
A wall-like mass of mineral matter, usually an intrusion of igneous rocks, filling up rents or fissures in the original strata.
n.
See Dike. The spelling dyke is restricted by some to the geological meaning.
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