Usually means: Barriers constructed to hold back water.
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  1. dikes: Merriam-Webster
  2. dikes: Collins English Dictionary
  3. dikes: Vocabulary.com
  4. Dike's, Dikes, dike's, dikes: Wordnik
  5. dikes: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. dikes: Wiktionary
  7. dikes: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  8. Dikes: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. Dikes: Rhymezone
  10. dikes: TheFreeDictionary.com
  11. dikes: Dictionary.com

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  1. Dikes (tool), dikes: Encyclopedia

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  1. dike's: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. dikes: Webster's New World Telecom Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Dikes)

▸ noun:  Alternative spelling of dykes (“diagonal cutting pliers”) [Diagonal cutting pliers; diagonal pliers; diagonal cutters; wire cutters.]

Similar:
dam, levee, dyke, polder, embankment, seawall, dyked, sluice, sluiceway, spillway, more...

Types:
earthen, levees, sluices, weirs, more...

Adjectives:
small, numerous, many, basic, sheeted, several, basaltic, few, narrow, large, clastic



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Similar:
dam, levee, dyke, polder, embankment, seawall, dyked, sluice, sluiceway, spillway, more...

Types:
earthen, levees, sluices, weirs, more...

Adjectives:
small, numerous, many, basic, sheeted, several, basaltic, few, narrow, large, clastic



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