Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The dike or fence of a sheepfold.
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Examples
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Would any gentleman, or set of gentlemen, go and drive a road right through the corner of a fauld-dike, and take away, as my agent observed to them, like twa roods of gude moorland pasture?
Chapter V 1917
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Would any gentleman, or set of gentlemen, go and drive a road right through the corner of a fauld-dike and take away, as my agent observed to them, like twa roods of gude moorland pasture?
Guy Mannering 1815
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'And then, Mr. Mannering, there was the story about the road and the fauld-dike.
Guy Mannering, Or, the Astrologer — Volume 01 Walter Scott 1801
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'And then, Mr. Mannering, there was the story about the road and the fauld-dike.
Guy Mannering, Or, the Astrologer — Complete Walter Scott 1801
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'And then, Mr. Mannering, there was the story about the road and the fauld-dike.
Guy Mannering — Complete Walter Scott 1801
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Would any gentleman, or set of gentlemen, go and drive a road right through the corner of a fauld-dike and take away, as my agent observed to them, like twa roods of gude moorland pasture?
Guy Mannering, Or, the Astrologer — Complete Walter Scott 1801
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Would any gentleman, or set of gentlemen, go and drive a road right through the corner of a fauld-dike and take away, as my agent observed to them, like twa roods of gude moorland pasture?
Guy Mannering, Or, the Astrologer — Volume 01 Walter Scott 1801
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Would any gentleman, or set of gentlemen, go and drive a road right through the corner of a fauld-dike and take away, as my agent observed to them, like twa roods of gude moorland pasture?
Guy Mannering — Complete Walter Scott 1801
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When I was hurt by one of the d — d whig dogs that shot at me from behind a fauld-dike, I lay a month there, and would stand such another wound to be in as good quarters again.”
Old Mortality 2004
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‘And then, Mr. Mannering, there was the story about the road and the fauld-dike.
Guy Mannering 1815
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