diked
DIKT
Definition
Refers to land or a body of water that has been enclosed, protected, or partitioned by a dike—a barrier or embankment used to prevent flooding or hold back water.
Etymology
Derived from the Middle English 'dike' or 'diche', originating from the Old English 'dic', meaning a ditch or trench; it is historically related to the word 'dig'.
In the news
The article uses the term to describe the Dutch lake's edges, which were artificially constrained by dikes, creating a bathtub-like environment that lacked natural, sloping marshy shores.
The Netherlands dredged 30 million cubic metres of sand, clay and silt from the bottom of a shallow lake and shaped it into 5 low islands; by 2020, a gull-billed tern chick had hatched there, after only one Dutch breeding case had been recorded since 1958
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