| The village community, through voluntary labor, create diked pastures on rectangular plots of land, called chaukas, to store the rainwater. |
| In 1968, a rock-filled dam with a flood control gate system was built in the New Brunswick, as a road connection and to protect diked farmland from flooding. |
| Westerner's perplexed by the artificiality of Hangzhou's dredged, diked and manipulated Xihu need only recall their own foundational myths. |
| The diked and filled wetland proved incapable of growing grain. |
| By 1986, more than 95 percent of the wild rice harvested was grown not in natural lakes but diked paddies, most of them in northern California. |
| First of all, it is stored in a sealed clay or lined lagoon, which also happens to be diked about four or five feet above ground level. |
