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in England. Dike, dyke, 1. a wall; 2. a ditch. Dry stone dyke, 

 a wall built without mortar." Jamieson's Diet, and Sup. 



^^ Bike, ditch, from A.-S. dician, to dig, fodere." H. Tooke. 



^^ Bike, 1. ditch; 2. dry hedge — Cumberl. ; 3. a small pond or 

 river — Yorks. A small rock in a stratum, a crack or breach in 

 the solid strata. It also means the veins of igneous rock met 

 with in mining, as ' the great whin dyke,' 'the 90 fathom dyke.' 

 l^orth." Halliwell. 



Bike, a ditch, also a puddle or small pool of water. Engl. 

 Dialect. Soc. East Torks. 



" Junius derives dike, Suio-Goth., from Gr. SUeXXa, ligo ; Ye- 

 relius from dy, palus, terra uliginosa ; Wachter from A.-S. dican 

 fodere ; and this would be the most convenient etymology if it 

 were certain that the A.-S. came from dika, fossam ducere, and 

 not the reverse. 



Compare Gr. So^^, aquarum receptaculum, which the later 

 Latins called dogam and docka, Anglice dock, a place for repairing 

 ships. Junius thinks that dock comes from hox^iov, receptaculum, 

 Causaubon from SoKavrj, loculus, conditorium." Ihre. 



Hence probably the Ital. Dogana, Er. Douane, Custom House. 



In the Index Yitandorum of Carey's Ainsworth, we find 

 dogus. m. Canalis, Yoss. 



" Bike, a hedge or fence, that which is digged, whether a 

 ditch or an embankment." Brockett. 



" A dijk or dyke in Holland is a rampart, agger, niurus, piled 

 up to keep out the sea. Beich in Ger. is a dike as in Holland ; 

 teich, a pond ; the former term is for the keeping out, the latter 

 for the retention, of water. 



Soil, hoi, the hollow of the ditch in distinction of the dick or 

 bank of the ditch. E. IN'orfolk. See comhe, cop, dene, hope, how, 

 and low, words with double meaning. 



Bike, a dyke, had in Ihre's day in Suio-Gothic, as it has now 

 in English, a double meaning, one almost the contrary of the 

 other. It was used both for the stone, turf, or other elevation, a 

 fence, and for the hollow or ditch alongside of it. 



" These labourers, deluers and dykers ben ful poore." Dives 

 and Pauper. 



