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stone-dike, -dyke
(Also as two words.)
[Cf. G. steindeich.]
A dike constructed of stone; a stone fence or embankment. Also attrib. (in quot. = enclosed with a stone-dike).
1553–4Extracts Burgh Rec. Edin. (1871) II. 289 The making of the stane dike on the north side of the South Loch, to hauld in the watter thairof. 1731Mem. Capt. Creichton in Swift's Wks. (1762) X. 225 Sir John Cogheran lay with a Party, in a Stone-Dike-Park, about ten Miles off. 1842J. Aiton Dom. Econ. (1857) 159 Stone-dikes are of all fences the readiest and most complete... Stone-dike inclosures are generally of dry stone.
Hence stone-dike v., intr. to build stone-dikes; stone-diked |-daɪkt| a., enclosed with stone-dikes; stone-diker, one who builds stone-dikes.
1870J. Brown Lett. (1907) 201 They had been stonedyking since October. 1897Daily News 30 Sept. 6/2 Some village sanctuary on a Yorkshire or Lancashire upland among the stone-dyked fields. 1901R. M. F. Watson Closeburn iii. 37 David was a stone-dyker by trade. |