| 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. |
| The village community, through voluntary labor, create diked pastures on rectangular plots of land, called chaukas, to store the rainwater. |
| He inspected it, concluded it was useless, got some diagonal cutters and diked it out. |
| 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. |
| Westerner's perplexed by the artificiality of Hangzhou's dredged, diked and manipulated Xihu need only recall their own foundational myths. |
| Eastward lay the Sonoma floodplain, an expanse of diked and drained bay lands, with tidal creeks and sloughs shining in the distance. |
