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Levee vs. Dike

Levee and Dike Definitions

Levee

An embankment raised to prevent a river from overflowing.

Dike

An embankment of earth and rock built to prevent floods.

Levee

A small ridge or raised area bordering an irrigated field.

Dike

Chiefly British A low wall, often of sod, dividing or enclosing lands.

Levee

A landing place on a river; a pier.

Dike

A barrier blocking a passage, especially for protection.
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Levee

A reception held, as by royalty, upon arising from bed.

Dike

A raised causeway.

Levee

A formal reception, as at a royal court.

Dike

A ditch; a channel.

Levee

To provide with a levee.

Dike

(Geology)A long mass of igneous rock that cuts across the structure of adjacent rock.
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Levee

An elevated geographical feature.

Dike

Variant of dyke2.

Levee

An embankment to prevent inundation; as, the levees along the Mississippi.

Dike

To protect, enclose, or provide with a dike.

Levee

(US) The steep bank of a river.

Dike

To drain with dikes or ditches.
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Levee

(US) The border of an irrigated field.

Dike

: to dig a ditch; to raise an earthwork; etc.

Levee

(US) A pier or other landing place on a river.

Dike

A ditch; a channel for water made by digging.
Little channels or dikes cut to every bed.

Levee

(obsolete) The act of rising; getting up, especially in the morning after rest.

Dike

An embankment to prevent inundations; a levee.
Dikes that the hands of the farmers had raised . . . Shut out the turbulent tides.

Levee

A reception of visitors held after getting up.

Dike

A wall of turf or stone.

Levee

A formal reception, especially one given by royalty or other leaders.

Dike

A wall-like mass of mineral matter, usually an intrusion of igneous rocks, filling up rents or fissures in the original strata.

Levee

To keep within a channel by means of levees.
To levee a river

Dike

To surround or protect with a dike or dry bank; to secure with a bank.

Levee

(transitive) To attend the levee or levees of.

Dike

To drain by a dike or ditch.

Levee

The act of rising.

Dike

To work as a ditcher; to dig.
He would thresh and thereto dike and delve.

Levee

A morning assembly or reception of visitors, - in distinction from a soirée, or evening assembly; a matinée; hence, also, any general or somewhat miscellaneous gathering of guests, whether in the daytime or evening; as, the president's levee.

Dike

Offensive terms for a lesbian who is noticeably masculine

Levee

An embankment to prevent inundation; as, the levees along the Mississippi; sometimes, the steep bank of a river.

Dike

A barrier constructed to contain the flow of water or to keep out the sea

Levee

To attend the levee or levees of.
He levees all the great.

Dike

Enclose with a dike;
Dike the land to protect it from water

Levee

To keep within a channel by means of levees; as, to levee a river.

Levee

A barrier constructed to contain the flow of water or to keep out the sea

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