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dyke, dike

1. an embankment constructed to prevent flooding, keep out the sea, etc.

2. a ditch or watercourse

3. a bank made of earth excavated for and placed alongside a ditch

4. Scot a wall, esp a dry-stone wall

5. a vertical or near-vertical wall-like body of igneous rock intruded into cracks in older rock

Dyke

Greg(ory). born 1947, British television executive; director-general of the BBC (2000--04)

dike, dyke

1. A dry stone wall.

2. A long low dam.

3. A bank of earth from an excavation.

4. An earth embankment which acts as a coffer-dam for keeping water out of an excavation.

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