1818 30 June 415/2 A young man..went to bathe in that deep and rapid part of the Dee..at the extremity of the Raik Dyke.
1845 XII. 804 A little below the church a raik dike has been formed in the middle of the river, in the shape of a horse-shoe.
1972 A. Keith iv. v. 324 In 1831 the Raik dyke which prevented water from the Dee from flowing past Torry was opened up.