单词 | fold-dike |
释义 | fold-diken. Scottish. A wall of turf surrounding a fold. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > sheep-farming > [noun] > folding sheep > fold or pen > materials for fold-dike1437 fold-stakec1475 wreath1495 toiling1805 fold-shore1811 1437 Merches of Bp. Brynnes in Cart. Aberd. F. 14 (Jam.) Fra that wele ascended up an ald fald dyk to the hill. c1600 Diurnal of Remarkable Occurrents (1833) 130 Ane narrow passage in fauld dykkis. 1816 W. Scott Old Mortality ix, in Tales of my Landlord 1st Ser. II. 212 One of the..whig dogs that shot at me from behind a fauld-dyke. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1437 |
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