Sc. [f. FOLD sb.2 + DIKE; prob. alteration of fail-dike: see FAIL sb.] A wall of turf surrounding a fold.
1437. Merches of Bp. Brynnes, in Cart. Aberd., F. 14 (Jam.). Fra þat wele ascendand up an ald fald dyk to þe hill.
1513–75. Diurnal Occurrents (1833), 130. The Hamiltounis being inclusit with ane narrow passage in fauld dykkis.
1816. Scott, Old Mort., ix. When I was hurt by one of the d—d whig dogs that shot at me from behind a fauld-dike, I lay a month there.
