powdike

English

Etymology

Scots pow, pou (“a pool, a watery or marshy place”), from pool.

Noun

powdike (plural powdikes)

1. (UK, dialect) A dike; a marsh or fen.
   • 1628–1644, Edw[ard] Coke, (please specify |part=1 to 4), London:

     cut down or break up the Powdike in Marshland

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “powdike”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)