| The diked and filled wetland proved incapable of growing grain. |
| He inspected it, concluded it was useless, got some diagonal cutters and diked it out. |
| The utility intends to drop the diked reservoir's water level by about 10 to 15 feet over the next week. |
| Westerner's perplexed by the artificiality of Hangzhou's dredged, diked and manipulated Xihu need only recall their own foundational myths. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
