Noun

(en noun)

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

(US) The steep bank of a river, or border of an irrigated field.

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

Noun

(en noun)

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

* Gray

the sun's levee

* 1749 , Henry Fielding, Tom Jones , Folio Society 1973, p. 414:

The sturdy hind now attends the levee of his fellow-labourer the ox

A reception of visitors held after getting up.

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

* {{quote-book

, year=1992 , year_published=1993 , author= Hilary Mantel , title=A Place of Greater Safety citation , isbn=9780689121685 , page=195 , passage=At the King's levee on the morning of the 13th, Philippe was first ignored; then asked by His Majesty (rudely) what he wanted; then told, ‘Get back where you came from.’ }}

Noun

(en noun)

(Australia, slang) A toilet.

1977 , In Cubbaroo's dim distant past
They built a double dyke.
Back to back in the yard it stood
An architectural dream in wood''
— Ian Slack-Smith, ''The Passing of the Twin Seater'', from ''The Cubbaroo Tales'', 1977. Quoted in ''Aussie Humour , Macmillan, 1988, ISBN 0-7251-0553-4, page 235.

(UK) A ditch (rarely also refers to similar natural features, and to one natural valley, Devil's Dyke, Sussex, due to a legend that the devil dug it).

(UK, mainly S England) An earthwork consisting of a ditch and a parallel rampart.

(British) An embankment to prevent inundation, or a causeway.

(UK, mainly Scotland and N England) A mound of earth, stone- or turf-faced, sometimes topped with hedge planting, or a hedge alone, used as a fence.

(UK, mainly Scotland and N England) A dry-stone wall usually forming a boundary to a wood, field or garden.

(British, geology) A body of once molten igneous rock that was injected into older rocks in a manner that crosses bedding planes.