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