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He was "diked" in his new seersucker suit, and when the sun struck it, it began to draw up.

Gov. Bob. Taylor's Tales Robert L. Taylor

Any person man or boy, with one dollar in his pocket, though his clothes be patched and his hat seedy, is in better conditon and much to be preferred to the conditon of the one who has no money and who is "diked" up in good clothes and owes for them.

Documenting the American South, or, The Southern Experience in 19-th Century America 1898

We pass two farmers stooped amid green shoots in a diked paddy, mud-red water halfway up their calves.

The Korean Bargain Barry Basden 2011

Like other Pescadero residents, willow-tree farmer Neil Curry lives in a low-lying area adjacent to the marsh, land diked generations ago to hold back the wetlands.

Tiny Town Is Awash in Water Woes Justin Scheck 2012

And although the river is diked to prevent seasonal flooding, when you have lowlands at the bottom of a mountain you can expect water at certain times of the year.

» The Big Thaw Strocel.com 2009

Sea Island cotton -- distinct from inland cotton -- was grown in levied plots at the shore, flushed of salt ingeniously by diked fresh water creeks.

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Large areas once covered by lowland forests have been leveled, diked, ditched, and dammed for blueberry and cranberry cultivation.

Ecoregions of New Jersey (EPA) 2009

Almost all (90%) of the former tidelands around the edges of the Coos estuary have been diked or filled to accommodate transportation routes and to create flat land for building and agriculture.

South Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve, Oregon 2008

The terrestrial flora around Padilla Bay, aside from the agricultural fields and diked areas, consists of second-growth forests of mixed conifers, broad leaf trees and occasional pastures.

Padilla Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, Washington 2008

Almost all of the salt marsh habitat associated with Padilla Bay was diked and drained before 1900 for farm land.

Padilla Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, Washington 2008