Meaning of powdike | Babel Free

Definitions

A dike around a marsh or fen.

UK, obsolete

Examples

“cut down or break up the Powdike in Marshland”

“Powdikes or other Banks in Marsh-land”

“Therefore Marshland (as Things now stand) runs a double Risque of Inundation. - First, from the Land Waters, wich overflow the Fens, and rise high against the Powdike in time of Floods, whereby the said Powdike is in danger to be rent and torn, undermin'd and blown up. [...] raise such violent Waves against the Powdike, as will break and tear it to pieces.”

“[…] perversely and maliciously to cut down or destroy the powdike, in the fens of Norfolk and Ely, is felony[…]”

CEFR level