dike(d) land(s)

Maritimes

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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the fertile sea meadows protected by a dike (def. 1).

1851

Advancing twelve or fifteen miles further to Horton and Wolfville, I found myself on the edge of the richest dyke-land in the province.

1896

". . . to our right lay far unrolled those rich diked lands which the vanished Acadian farmers of old won back from the sea. . . ."

1936

This is an area of fertile dyke lands. . . .