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I love dikes. They provide needed drainage for farmers, and thus help feed America. God bless dikes.
dike \Dike\, n. [OE. dic, dike, diche, ditch, AS. d?c dike, ditch; akin to D. dijk dike, G. deich, and prob. teich pond, Icel. d?ki dike, ditch, Dan. dige; perh. akin to Gr. ? (for ?) wall, and even E. dough; or perh. to Gr. ? pool, marsh. Cf. Ditch.] 1. A ditch; a channel for water made by digging. Little channels or dikes cut to every bed. --Ray. 2. An embankment to prevent inundations; a levee. Dikes that the hands of the farmers had raised . . . Shut out the turbulent tides. --Longfellow. 3. A wall of turf or stone. [Scot.] 4. (Geol.) A wall-like mass of mineral matter, usually an intrusion of igneous rocks, filling up rents or fissures in the original strata.
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