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dyke bottom

noun

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  1. The bottom of a dyke (earthwork raised to prevent the inundation of lowland by flooding.)

    • Defendant deposited the refuse from the dyke bottom still further on plaintiff's land, so that the total encroachment now varied from 5 ft. 5 in. to 5 ft. 10 in.
    • One night I lay in a dyke bottom from the wind and went sleep half an hour when I suddenly awoke and found one side wet through from the sock in the dyke bottom , so I got out and went on.
    • Allowing for erosion it is estimated that that its 45° slope from bank top to dyke bottom was originally 12m.

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