dike

verb

diked; diking

transitive verb

1

civil engineering : to surround or protect with a dike (see dike entry 1)

2

civil engineering : to drain by a dike

diker noun civil engineering

Examples of dike in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Responders are establishing diking and damming measures to divert the potential fluid down a grade into a commercial holding area. —Alexandra Koch, FOXNews.com, 23 May 2026

Some areas of the estuary are diked to allow for farming, which means water no longer flows in or out with the tides. —Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Dec. 2024

The decision was largely informed by alarmingly low salmon runs as a result of heavily dammed, diked and channeled streams struggling to maintain healthy flows in the face of droughts and warming summers. —oregonlive, 17 June 2023

In addition to the hundreds of thousands of acres of marshland that were drained or diked off, the researchers discovered former wetlands that now are forested that were unknown to anybody. —Peter Fimrite, SFChronicle.com, 17 Aug. 2019

Word History

Etymology

First Known Use

14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Rhymes for dike

• bike
• hike
• ike
• like
• mike
• psych
• pyke
• shrike
• spike
• strike
• tike
• alike

Kids Definition

dike

1 of 2 noun

ˈdīk 

1

: a channel dug in the earth to carry water : ditch

2

: a bank of earth constructed to control water : levee

3

: a long body of igneous rock that has been forced while molten into a narrow opening or crack

dike

2 of 2 verb

diked; diking

1

: to surround or protect with a dike

2

: to drain by a dike

diker noun