diker
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[edit]diker (plural dikers)
- One who digs or works on dykes; a ditcher.
- 1866, Charles Kingsley, chapter 28, in Hereward the Wake, London: Nelson, page 386:
- Their armour and weapons were found at times, by delvers and dykers, for centuries after; are found at times unto this day, beneath the rich drained cornfields which now fill up that black half-mile[.]
- (Scotland, Northern England) One who builds stone walls, usually dry-stone without lime.