dyke¹ or dike /dīk/

1. A trench, or the earth dug out and thrown up
2. A ditch
3. A mound raised to prevent flooding
4. In Scotland, a wall (dryˈ-stane dyke a wall without mortar; failˈ-dyke a wall of turf), sometimes even a thorn-hedge
5. An igneous mass injected into a fissure in rocks, sometimes weathered out into wall-like forms (geology)
6. A lavatory (old slang)

To provide with a dyke

To make a dyke

dykˈer or d īkˈer noun

A person who makes dykes

dykeˈ-louper noun (Scot)

1. An animal that jumps the fence, etc around its pasture
2. An immoral person (figurative)

dyke swarm noun (geology)

A series of dykes of the same age, usu trending in a constant direction over a wide area

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