dyked
SayDYKT/daɪkt/
- 1Past tense and past participle of dyke.
The farmers dyked the coastal marsh and slowly turned it into grazing land.
The old estate had been dyked on three sides, with a deep ditch to keep raiders out.
Note
The final e of dyke simply takes -d, and that one spelling serves as the simple past (they dyked the marsh) and as the past participle (land dyked against the sea). The verb behind it is British in every use: banking land against water, digging or scouring a ditch, steeping fibers in a stream. Walling a field with earth or stone is Scottish dialect.
dyked is a form of dyke
dyke, verb: To build an earth bank that holds back the sea or a river. Full entry
- Spelling
- dyke → dyked: add -d
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /t/.
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