fill-dike

Updated: June 4, 2025

There is at least the certainty of foxes, and of a gallop over the highest and soundest land in the South, and even "February fill-dike" cannot make the going heavy. At the head of one of the smaller Thames tributaries, a few miles from the river, lies Ewelme, the ancient Aquelma, so called from the springing waters which rise there.

C. J. (Charles John) Cornish - The Naturalist on the Thames