• Anti-flood structure
• Bank check?
• Bank edifice
• Bank guard?
• Bank manager?
• Bank with significant deposits?
• Barrier in Holland
• Benelux barrier
• Big bank investment?
• Big engineering project
• Big water holder
• Dam of sorts
• Dutch bank manager?
• Dutch construction
• Dutch embankment
• Dutch engineerig feat
• Dutch river sight
• Dutch tourist attraction
• Embankment
• Engineers' work
• Famous site of a Dutch boy's thumb
• Flood barrier
• Flood control device
• Flood control embankment
• Flood deterrent
• Flood guard
• Flood preventer
• Flood prevention
• Flood prevention structure
• Flood protector
• Flood protector in Dutch lowlands
• Flood-preventing embankment
• High ground in Dutch lowlands
• Holland feature
• It holds back the sea
• It may hold back the sea
• It might consist of sandbags
• It'll hold water
• Legendary Haarlem leaker
• Levee
• Little Dutch Boy's challenge
• Netherlands sight
• Place for a famous thumb
• Place for a finger?
• Protective barrier
• Protective embankment
• Retainer
• River barrier
• Sandbag stack, maybe
• Sea barrier
• Sea wall
• Site along the IJsselmeer
• Site of Hans Brinker's heroism
• Spot for Brinker
• Tropical storm protection
• Wall guarded by a fictional Dutch boy
• Water barrier
• Water container?
• Water holder
• Water stopper
• Water-level regulator
• Zuider Zee sight
dike for reservoir — обвалование резервуара
the dikes have burst - преграды сметены
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Англо-русский строительный словарь. — М.: Русский Язык.С.Н.Корчемкина, С.К.Кашкина, С.В.Курбатова.1995.
Англо-русский строительный словарь.Академик.ру.2011.
1. сточная канава, сток; ров; траншея
2. 1) дамба, плотина, насыпь
2) преграда, препятствие
the ~s have burst - преграды сметены
3. земляная или каменная ограда
4. геол. дайка
5. сл. лесбиянка
2. {daık} v1. 1) защищать дамбой, перегораживать плотиной
2) воздвигать плотину, дамбу
2. окапывать; окружать рвом
3. осушать, дренировать
4. вымачивать в канавах (лён, пеньку)