| 单词 | diking | 
| 释义 | dikingn. 1.  The action of making a dike; the construction of dikes (in various senses of the noun). ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > earth-moving, etc. > 			[noun]		 > making ditches dikingc1000 ditchingc1380 the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > preparation of land or soil > ditching or drainage > 			[noun]		 dikingc1000 ditchingc1380 voidance1398 water-furrowing1398 avoidinga1513 rilling1610 dikage1634 c1000    in  T. Wright  & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. 		(1884)	 I. 149/15  				Fossio, dicung. 1377    W. Langland Piers Plowman B.  vi. 250  				Eche a wyght wrouȝte or in dykynge or in deluynge. 1486    in  W. H. Stevenson Rec. Borough Nottingham 		(1885)	 III. 246  				For dykyng at the Cheynybrigg Close. 1556    Surv. Calais in  Archaeologia 		(1893)	 53 App. ii. 370  				To minishe everie yere jd unto the time that his betterings of such dikenge be owte or Run-uppe. 1569    in  W. H. Stevenson Rec. Borough Nottingham 		(1889)	 IV. 135  				For dykyng the gret dyke in Westcroft. 1641    H. Best Rural Econ. Yorks. 		(1857)	 120  				Two dayes..dykinge aboute it. 1726    Laws of Sewers 188  				Keep the Rivers thereof with sufficient Dyking, Scouring [etc.]. 1830    N. S. Wheaton Jrnl. 464  				Much of the land..reclaimed from the marsh by ditching and dykeing. 1864    T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia IV.  xvi. viii. 366  				Upon this Dollart itself there is now to be diking tried. 1884    Manch. Examiner 6 Sept. 5/2  				The land..wants draining, and dyking.  2.  Work consisting of dikes. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > earth-moving, etc. > 			[noun]		 > embanking > an embankment > work consisting of diking1436 wharfing1691 1436    Pol. Poems (Rolls) II. 153  				Defens off herth and dikyng. 1483    Cath. Angl. 100/1  				A Dikynge, fossatus. 1522    Accts. St. John's Hosp., Canterbury (Canterbury Cathedral Archives: CCA-U13/4)  				Paied for castyng of xxj roddis of dykyng. Compounds  diking-boots  n. stout boots, reaching up to the thigh, used in ditching. ΚΠ 1877    F. Ross  et al.  Gloss. Words Holderness  				Dikin-beeats, used for wading in the water and mud when diking.   diking-mitten  n. a glove used by a diker. ΚΠ 1820    T. Bewick Mem. 		(1882)	 13  				Equipt with an apron, an old dyking-mitten and a sharpened sickle, to set off among the whin bushes. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online June 2021). <  | 
	
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