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First published 2001 (DOST Vol. IX).
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Stane dyk(e, n. Also: stain-, steane-, stoan- and -dyik, -dyck, -dike, -dicke. [Stan(e n. and Dyke n. 2.] a. A wall built of stone; chiefly, a dry stone wall. b. A retaining wall or embankment, a dam. c. A rock wall in a coal mine.a. 1447 Reg. Episc. Aberd. I 245.
A lonyng lyand throw the mur betwix twa ald stane dykes 1481 Douglas Bequest.
The landis fra the sowth est nwk off Cragflour ewyn wp the stane dyik 1529 Dundee B. Laws 546.
The stane dyke … to be biggit … ewyn vp north in lavell to the hed dyk a1586 Maitland Geneal. Setoun 38.
This Lord George biggit the great new hous … also the great stane dyk with stane and lyme 1580 Prot. Bk. J. Scott 90b.
That peice of haid rig be eist the dyk of the … corn ȝard to the litle stane dyk 1585 Liber Scon 231.
The chapel-yaird with the … yaird stane dyikis about the samin 1589–90 St. A. B. Ct. 6 Feb.
Steane dyk 1595–6 (1600) Reg. Great S. 366/1.
Terre tenementum alias nuncupat magnam mansionem, … within the stane dykis ex australi latere vie regie burgi de Lynlythgow 1648 Aberd. B. Rec. IV 87.
To caus build ane stane dyk of rockwork … sicklyke ordanes him to tak the stanes from the back dyk and from the dam for building of the wall 1670 Kirkcudbr. Sheriff Ct. Deeds I 300.
Stane dicke 1690 Swintons App. ccix.
Then doun the ground of ane old stain dyke which lyes wast again to the head of Greencleughb. 1553–4 Edinb. B. Rec. II 289.
The making of the stane dike … to hauld in the watter [of the South Loch]c. 1681 Sheriffhall Coal Accompt 24 Jan.
For thirleing a hard stoan dyck in the splentis coall being four fathams thick