(Also as two words.) [Cf. G. steindeich.] A dike constructed of stone; a stone fence or embankment. Also attrib. (in quot. = enclosed with a stone-dike).
1553–4. Extracts Burgh Rec. Edin. (1871), II. 289. The making of the stane dike on the north side of the South Loch, to hauld in the watter thairof.
1731. Mem. Capt. Creichton, in Swift’s Wks. (1762), X. 225. Sir John Cogheran lay with a Party, in a Stone-Dike-Park, about ten Miles off.
1842. J. Aiton, Dom. Econ. (1857), 159. Stone-dikes are of all fences the readiest and most complete…. Stone-dike inclosures are generally of dry stone.
Hence Stone-dike v., intr. to build stone-dikes; Stone-diked a., enclosed with stone-dikes; Stone-diker, one who builds stone-dikes.
1870. J. Brown, Lett. (1907), 201. They had been stonedyking since October.
1897. Daily News, 30 Sept., 6/2. Some village sanctuary on a Yorkshire or Lancashire upland among the stone-dyked fields.
1901. R. M. F. Watson, Closeburn, iii. 37. David was a stone-dyker by trade.
