Where the river is running above the adjacent plains there is no difficulty in drawing off the turbid water by gravity, under controlled conditions, into diked basins, and even in compelling the river to buttress its own levees.
The majority of the negroes were absent working within the diked enclosures of this large estate, which before the war had produced forty thousand bushels of rice annually.
The writer has observed this crust on such diked lands, having a thickness of an eighth of an inch.
When these tule lands have been diked and drained, they are sold for from twenty to twenty-five dollars per acre.
Thus summer and autumn had passed and until toward the end of November the work had been continued; then frost and snow had put a stop to the labors and it was decided to leave the land that was to be diked in, open.
I want," he began slowly and then stopped for a second, "I want the big foreland that begins opposite our place and stretches on westward to bediked in and made into a solid enclosure.
And then again he'd come among us, diked out in the soup and fish, and flash the roll, for no other reason that I know except he enjoyed seeing us get the blind staggers, which we always did.
Later, Larry told me that it was one of Jake Hergsheimer's friends, and he had been a little bit surprised to see Larry at the opera all diked out, and he had wanted to know who the girl was.
And what do you suppose it ought to be worth next year, as soon as it's diked in?
And good diked land, or ma'sh as these people call it, is worth about two hundred dollars an acre, isn't it?
Our plan is to sell the new marsh, when we get it diked in, and with the proceeds pay off Hand's mortgage with all the arrears of interest.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "diked" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
