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▪ I. didle, n. local.|ˈdaɪd(ə)l|
Also 5–8 didal(l, 9 dydle.
[Derivation unascertained: see the vb.]
A sharp triangular spade, used for clearing out ditches and water-courses; also a metal scoop or dredge fixed to the end of a long pole, used for a similar purpose. Hence didle-man, a didler.
1490Chamberl. Acc. in Kirkpatrick Relig. Orders Norwich (1845) 316 Paid to the didalmen and other labourers, for carrying the muck out of the said ditch [of Norwich Castle]. 1573Tusser Husb. (1878) 38 A didall and crome for draining of ditches. 1688R. Holme Armoury iii. 244/1 A Didall and Crome to drain Ditches. 1710D. Hilman Tusser Redivivus, Didal, a triangular spade, as sharp as a knife, excellent to bank ditches, where the earth is light and pestered with a sedgy weed. 1787in Grose Provinc. Gloss. 1883G. C. Davies Norfolk Broads xx. (1884) 148 We have ice ‘dydles’. They are large nets made of wire, at the end of a pole, with which we can scoop the broken pieces of ice up.
▪ II. didle, v. local.|ˈdaɪd(ə)l|
Also dydle.
[Cf. prec.
A suggestion is that didle is worn down from dike-delve.]
a. trans. To clean out the bed of (a river or ditch).
b. intr. To work with a didle or didling scoop. Hence ˈdidling vbl. n., ˈdidler.
1803W. Taylor in Robberds Mem. I. 471 The older theology of the reformers is so gone by..that I should despair of the patience to didle in their mud for pearl-muscles. a1825Forby Voc. E. Anglia, Didle, to clean the bottom of a river. 1835Municip. Corp. 1st Rept. App. iv. 2465 The Surveyor of Didlers [of Norwich] superintends the persons employed in cleansing the river. 1842Ann. Reg. 195 Messrs. Culley and Cossey lately built a didling boat. 1863Morton Cycl. Agric. Gloss., Didle (Norf., Suff.), to clean the bottom of a river with a didling scoop. 1865W. White East. Eng. I. 81, I..saw only a man who appeared to be hoeing the river bottom. He..was the dydler. 1883G. C. Davies Norfolk Broads xv. (1884) 112 The dykes are kept clear, and the channel of the river deepened, by ‘dydling’... At the end of a long pole is a metal scoop, in the shape of a ring, with a network..attached. This is plunged into the river, and scraped along the bottom to the side, where it is lifted out and the semi-liquid mud poured on to the rond. Ibid. xvii. 124 The reach had been dydled out. |