The process or practice of building, maintaining, or repairing dikes and embankments.
From 'dike' + '-ing', the gerund/present participle suffix that turns verbs into nouns. This word naturally emerged to describe the ongoing activity of dike work.
Medieval and early modern diking was insanely labor-intensive—whole communities would spend months moving earth by hand, working in teams with specialized knowledge passed down through generations!
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