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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
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Bak-dyke, n. Also: bak dyik, dyck, bake dyke. [Back a.] A back-wall.1525 Aberd. B. Rec. I. 122.
The statutis … for the reparatioun and vpbiging thair portis, … bak dykes, and for ȝetts 1582 Dundee B. Laws 41.
It is statut … that all bake dykes of this brugh be biggit up and repairit sufficiently 1594 Elgin Rec. II. 39.
The bak dyik of the said James Andersons ȝaird 1597 Aberd. B. Rec. II. 160.
That all the saidis back dyckis salbe close, and na backyettis thairin 1648
Ib. IV. 87.
To tak the stanes from the back dyk 1663 Rec. Old Aberd. I. 104.
At the bak dyikis adtanent to the mance
