Crossword-Solution: DIKE
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Dike | n. | A ditch; a channel for water made by digging. |
| Dike | n. | An embankment to prevent inundations; a levee. |
| Dike | n. | A wall of turf or stone. |
| Dike | n. | A wall-like mass of mineral matter, usually an intrusion of igneous rocks, filling up rents or fissures in the original strata. |
| Dike | v. t. | To surround or protect with a dike or dry bank; to secure with a bank. |
| Dike | v. t. | To drain by a dike or ditch. |
| Dike | v. i. | To work as a ditcher; to dig. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| DIKE | anagram | EKID |
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One who, or that which, eats.
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Sentences with DIKE (5)
You turn one of those little European rivers over to this Commission, with its hard bottom and clear water, and it would just be a holiday job for them to wall it, and pile it, and dike it, and tame it down, and boss it around, and make it go wherever they wanted it to, and stay where they put it, and do just as they said, every time.
The chapel and bridge are of stone alike, Blackish-gray and mostly wet; Cut hemp-stalks steep in the narrow dike.
About halfway across the heath there had been a wide dike recently cut, and the earth from the cutting was cast up roughly on the other side.
True Thomas, hide me under your cloak, God wot, I'm little fit to dee!” 'Twas bent beneath and blue above -- 'Twas open field and running flood -- Where, hot on heath and dike and wall, The high sun warmed the adder's brood.
Nor had Chauncey Dike forgotten the scalp of the brave who leaped at him out of the briers at Neowee.
Quotes with DIKE (3)
The important thing for you to remember, Montag, is we're the Happiness Boys, the Dixie Duo, you and I and the others. We stand against the small tide of those who want to make everyone unhappy with conflicting theory and thought. We have our fingers in the dike. Hold steady. Don't let the torrent of melancholy and drear philosophy drown our world. We depend on you. I don't think you realize how important you are, we are, to our happy world as it stands now.
I saw the Tracker — but that’s wrong, really. I saw right to where the tracking thing was. I saw those winnowing tentacles come out again, and the front figure pause, and then — it’s the only word that actually describes it — ooze on again on its via dolorosa. And at that the hind figure seemed to summon all its strength. It seemed to open out a fringe of arms or tentacles, a sort of corona of black rays spread out. It gaped with a full expansion, and even I could feel that t…
Foreign behavior? What the fuck are you talking about? Foreign behavior? Have you read Things Fall Apart? Ifemulu asked, wishing she had not told Ranyinudo about Dike. She was angrier with Ranyinudo than she had ever been, yet she knew that Ranyinudo meant well, and had said what many other Nigerians would say, which was why she had not told anyone else about Dike's suicide attempt since she came back.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 138 times in crossword archives (1951–2024).