a watercourse or ditch
a bank, usu of earth, constructed to control or confine water
a barrier preventing passage
a raised causeway
a wall-like body of rock that has flowed while molten into a fissure and that runs across layers of other rocks
Brit a wall or fence of turf or stone
chiefly Aus, NZ, informal a toilet
[Old English dīc ditch, dyke]