powdike

English

Etymology

Scots pow, pou (“a pool, a watery or marshy place”), from pool.

Noun

powdike (plural powdikes)

1. (UK, obsolete) A dike; a marsh or fen.
   • 1628–1644, Edw[ard] Coke, (please specify |part=1 to 4), London:

     cut down or break up the Powdike in Marshland

References

• “powdike”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.