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dikers

dikers is the plural of diker.

Meaning of diker

Noun

diker (plural dikers)

  1. One who digs or works on dykes; a ditcher.
    • Their armour and weapons were found at times, by delvers and dykers, for centuries after; are found at times unto this day, beneath the rich drained cornfields which now fill up that black half-mile[.]1866, Charles Kingsley, chapter 28, in Hereward the Wake, London: Nelson, page 386
  2. (Northern England, Scotland) One who builds stone walls, usually dry-stone without lime.

Questions about dikers

What is dikers the plural of?
Dikers is the plural of diker.

Words near dikers in the dictionary

  1. Dikeman
  2. Dikemans
  3. diker
  4. dikeria
  5. dikerion
  6. dikers
  7. dikes
  8. dikes out
  9. dikes up
  10. dikeside
  11. dikesides

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