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121Soak dike — The term Soak dike is used in The Fens of eastern England to mean a ditch or drain running parallel with an embankment, for the purpose of taking any water that soaks through from the river or drain beyond the bank. In Lincolnshire, sock dyke was …
122Samuel Warren Dike — Samuel Warren Dike, LL.D. (1839 1913) was an American Congregational clergyman, born at Thompson, Conn. He graduated at Williams College in 1863 and at Andover Theological Seminary in 1866. Intent on reforming the laws of divorce, he organized… …
123Dwight "Dike" Beede — Dwight Dike V. Beede (1903 ndash; 1972) served as the first head football coach of Youngstown State University (then Youngstown College). He served there from 1937 to 1972. In the course of his entire professional coaching career, Beede counted… …
124Kenneth Dike — (1917 1983) was a Nigerian historian and the first Nigerian Vice Chancellor of the nation s premier college, the University of Ibadan. During the Nigerian civil war, he moved to Harvard University, Boston. He attended Fourah Bay College, Sierra… …
125Proagogĭas dike — (gr. Ant.), Klage wegen Zuführung einer freien Jungfrau od. eines freien Knaben zur Unzucht …
126Atimētos Dike — (gr.), im attischen Proceß ein Rechtshandel, in dem die Strafe nicht geschätzt (von dem Richter bestimmt), sondern durch die Gesetze bestimmt war …
127February fill-dike — noun A rural appellation for the month of February, when rain or melting snow fills dykes with water. Regarding the season, there is an old proverb worthy noticing: February fill dike, be it black or be it white …
128Helm's Dike — The defensive dike of the Deeping coomb. The great defensive earthwork that ran across the Deeping coomb, as part of the defences of the Hornburg and Helm s Deep …
