Dictionary Entry
dike
dike is a 4-letter English word with 10 senses as noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A ditch; a channel for water made by digging. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
4 letters · Scrabble 9 · Words With Friends 9 · 10 senses
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- 1noun
A ditch; a channel for water made by digging.
- 2noun
An embankment to prevent inundations; a levee.
- 3noun
A wall of turf or stone.
- 4noun
A wall-like mass of mineral matter, usually an intrusion of igneous rocks, filling up rents or fissures in the original strata.
- 5transitive verb
To surround or protect with a dike or dry bank; to secure with a bank.
- 6transitive verb
To drain by a dike or ditch.
- 7intransitive verb
To work as a ditcher; to dig.
- 8noun
a barrier constructed to contain the flow of water or to keep out the sea
- 9noun
(slang) offensive term for a lesbian who is noticeably masculine
- 10verb
enclose with a dike
"dike the land to protect it from water"
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