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diker, dyker|ˈdaɪkə(r)|
Also 5 dikar, dycare.
[OE. dícere, díkere, f. díc-ian to dike, to ditch; in ME. perh. formed anew from dike v.1]
1. A man who constructs or works at dikes.
a. One who digs ditches or trenches.
c1000ælfric Gloss. in Wr.-Wülcker 149/16 Fossor, dikere. 1377Langl. P. Pl. B. vi. 109 Dikeres and delueres digged vp þe balkes. 1496Dives & Paup. (W. de W.) i. xlvi. 872/1 Labourers, deluers and dykers..ben full poore comonly. 1587Fleming Contn. Holinshed III. 1541/2 They knew not the order of Romneie marsh works..for they were onelie good dikers and hodmen. 1723Thoresby in Phil. Trans. XXXII. 344 When the Labourers or Dikers first discovered..the Jetties..it might be about the Depth of 8 or 10 Foot. 1865Kingsley Herew. (1866) II. ix. 153 Their..weapons were found at times by delvers and dykers for centuries after.
b. One who builds enclosure walls (of earth or dry stone). Sc.
1497Ld. Treas. Acc. Scot. I. 332 The dikaris of the park of Falkland. 1864Cornh. Mag. Nov. 613 Dry-stone dykers, as well as masons, have twenty-four shillings per week. 1884J. Tait in Un. Presbyterian Mag. Apr. 156 He was to meat the dykers while bigging the fold dyke.
c. One who constructs embankments.
1481–90Howard Househ. Bks. (Roxb.) 510 Payd to Prynce, the dyker, for the dykyng off ij. rodde in the old parke of a pond ther, viij.s.
2. A local name of the hedge-sparrow.
1892Northumbld. Gloss., Diker, a hedge sparrow. |