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ˈsea-dike
[Cf. Du. zeedijk.]
1. An embankment against the sea, a sea-wall.
14..Pict. Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 797/40 Hoc fossatum, a sedyke. 1878Miller & Skertchly Fenland i. 8 The old seadykes—like those along the coast of East-Holland in Lincolnshire.
2. attrib.
1395in East Anglian (1871) IV. 79 [The iiij part of one labour in] Sedyksylver. Ibid. 92 [Of xxv labours by custom called] Sediksylver. 1567Drant Hor. Epist. i. xv. E vj, When I cum to seadyke syde [Lat. ad mare cum veni]. 1799A. Young Agric. Lincs. 272 The Old Sea-dike bank.
Hence ˈsea-diked a.
1851S. Warren Lily & Bee 22 In busy sea-dyked Holland. |