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diking, dyking, vbl. n.|ˈdaɪkɪŋ|
[OE. dícung, f. díc-ian to dike: see -ing1.]
1. The action of making a dike; the construction of dikes (in various senses of the n.).
c1000ælfric Gloss. in Wr.-Wülcker 149/15 Fossio, dicung. 1377Langl. P. Pl. B. vi. 250 Eche a wyght wrouȝte or in dykynge or in deluynge. 1486Nottingham Rec. III. 246 For dykyng at the Cheynybrigg Close. 1526Customs of Pale (Dillon 1892) 82 To minishe everie yere jd unto the time that his betterings of such dikenge be owte or Run uppe. 1569Nottingham Rec. IV. 135 For dykyng the gret dyke in Westcroft. 1641Best Farm. Bks. (Surtees) 120 Two dayes..dykinge aboute it. 1726Laws of Sewers 188 Keep the Rivers thereof with sufficient Dyking, Scouring [etc.]. 1830N. S. Wheaton Jrnl. 464 Much of the land..reclaimed from the marsh by ditching and dykeing. 1865Carlyle Fredk. Gt. VI. xvi. viii. 223 Upon this Dollart itself there is now to be diking tried. 1884Manch. Exam. 6 Sept. 5/2 The land..wants draining, and dyking.
2. Work consisting of dikes.
1436Pol. Poems (Rolls) II. 153 Defens off herth and dikyng. 1483Cath. Angl. 100/1 A Dikynge, fossatus. 1522MS. Acc. St. John's Hosp., Canterb., Paied for castyng of xxj roddis of dykyng.
3. Comb. diking-boots, stout boots, reaching up to the thigh, used in ditching; diking-mitten, a glove used by a diker.
1820T. Bewick Mem. (1882) 13 Equipt with an apron, an old dyking-mitten and a sharpened sickle, to set off among the whin bushes. 1877Holderness Gloss., Dikin-beeats, used for wading in the water and mud when diking. |