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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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1†n.
an earthwork embankment equipped with aboiteaus to protect the land from the high tides of the Bay of Fundy.
See: aboiteau
Quotations
1876
The river . . . in 1810, was again closed by a good dyke, with substantial sluices. . . .
1889
With remarkable industry the Acadians reclaimed from the sea by dikes many thousands of fertile acres . . . and on the sea meadows, at one time, grazed as many as sixty thousand head of cattle.
2n.
the fertile sea meadows protected by a dike (def. 1).
See: dike(d) land(s)
Quotations
1835
″. . . The Deacon has a hundred acres of dyke.”
1957
In everyday speech, we make no distinction between the dykes and the dyked lands, but call them both dykes.