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DIKE
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English (Bedfordshire)
English (Bedfordshire) : habitational name from a lost place in Bedfordshire, recorded in 969 as Foteseige, from Old English foss ‘ditch’, ‘dike’ + ēg ‘island’, ‘dry land in marsh’, ‘promontory’, or a topographic name for someone who lived on low lying land by a ditch or dike.
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Norse
From the dike settlement.
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English
English : habitational name from places in Northumberland and Kent. The former is probbly from an Old English stelling ‘shelter or fold for cattle’; the latter may be named with an unattested Old English male personal name, Stealla, + -ingas, a suffix denoting ‘family or followers of’.Dutch : topographic name from a derivative of Middle Dutch stelle ‘land built up on mudflats behind a dike’.German : derivative of Stell 1, for a small cattle farmer.
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English
English : variant of Dyke.
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English
English : habitational name from Diss in Suffolk, which gets its name from a Norman pronunciation of Middle English diche, Old English dīc ‘ditch’, ‘dike’ (see Dyke).German : habitational name from Dissen near the Teutoburg forest.
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English
English : habitational name from Digby in Lincolnshire, named from Old Norse dÃk ‘dike’, ‘ditch’ + býr ‘farm’, ‘settlement’.
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English
Son of Dick.
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English
English : habitational name from a place in Lincolnshire, so called from the genitive case of the Old English byname FÅt, meaning ‘foot’ (or the Old Norse cognate Fótr), + Old English dÄ«c ‘ditch’, ‘dike’ (see Ditch).
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English
English : variant of Dixon.Possibly a German topographic name from a reduced form (typical of the Lower Rhine) of Middle Low German dīk ‘dike’ + hūs ‘house’.
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Dutch
From the dike.
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English (chiefly Yorkshire)
English (chiefly Yorkshire) : habitational name from any of several places in Yorkshire named Deighton, from Old English dīc ‘ditch’, ‘dike’ + tūn ‘settlement’, ‘enclosure’. See also Ditton.
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English
English : variant of Dickman.Danish (Digmann) : either a topographic name, from dik ‘dike’ + man ‘man’, or a nickname for a stout man, from dik ‘fat’ + man.German (Digmann) : variant of Dieckmann.
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English
English : habitational name from any of the numerous places named Ditton, for example in Cheshire, Kent, Cambridgeshire, and Surrey, from Old English dīc ‘ditch’, ‘dike’ + tūn ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’.English : habitational name from Ditton Priors in Shropshire, recorded in Domesday Book as Dodintone ‘settlement (Old English tūn) associated with a man called Dod(d)a or Dud(d)a’.
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English (southwest)
English (southwest) : occupational name for a digger of ditches or a builder of dikes, or a topographic name for someone who lived by a ditch or dike, from an agent derivative of Middle English diche, dike (see Dyke).English : regional name from an area of East Sussex, near Hellingly, called ‘the Dicker’ (hence also the hamlets of Upper and Lower Dicker), from Middle English dyker unit of ten (Latin decuria, from decem ‘ten’); the reason for the place being so named is not clear. It has been suggested that the reference is to a bundle of iron rods, in which sense dicras appears in Domesday Book. Such a bundle could have been the rent for property in this iron-working area. Surname forms such as atte dicker occur in the surrounding region in the 13th and 14th centuries.German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : variant of Dick 2, from an inflected form.North German : variant of Low German Dieker, a topographic or an occupational name for someone who lived or worked at a dike (see Dieck).Americanized spelling of French Decaire.
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English
English : topographic name for someone who lived by a defense consisting of a thorn hedge and a ditch, or a habitational name from some minor place named with Old English þorn ‘thorn bush’ + dīc ‘ditch’, ‘dike’.
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English
English : variant spelling of Dyke.
Female
African
tears.
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English
English : from Middle English diche, dike, Old English dīc ‘dike’, ‘earthwork’, hence a metonymic occupational name for a ditcher or a topographic name for someone who lived by a ditch or dike. The medieval dike was larger and more prominent than the modern ditch, and was usually constructed for purposes of defense rather than drainage.Americanized spelling of Dutch Dijk (see Dyck).
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Greek
Justice.
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English
English : from Middle English diche, dike ‘dike’, ‘earthwork’ + man ‘man’, hence an occupational name for a ditch digger or a topographic name for someone who lived by a ditch or dike. See also Dyke.English : occupational name meaning ‘servant (Middle English man) of Dick’.Dutch : elaborated form of Dyck.Americanized spelling of German Dickmann.Jewish (Ashkenazic) : nickname meaning ‘fat man’, a noun formation from Dick 2.
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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 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.
v. t.
To drain by a dike or ditch.
n.
The molten matter within the earth, the source of the material of lava flows, dikes of eruptive rocks, etc.
n.
A ditcher.
n.
One who builds stone walls; usually, one who builds them without lime.
n.
An embankment to prevent inundations; a levee.
imp. & p. p.
of Dike
a.
Of or pertaining to trap rock; as, a trap 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 surround or protect with a dike or dry bank; to secure with a bank.
n.
A dike of piles in the sea, a river, etc., to check the approach of an enemy.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Dike
v. i.
To work as a ditcher; to dig.
n.
A wall of turf or stone.
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.
See Dike. The spelling dyke is restricted by some to the geological meaning.
n.
A dike a marsh or fen.