dyke

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   an embankment built to hold back water; a ditch or channel

   The villagers raised the dyke before the floodwaters arrived.

A variant of 'dike', from Middle English 'dik', from Old English 'dīc' ('ditch, dike'), of Germanic origin; the same root gives 'ditch'.

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