diker

plural dikers · alternative dyker

1. One who digs or works on dykes; a ditcher.

   Their armour and weapons were found at times, by delvers and dykers, for centuries after; are found at times unto this day, beneath the rich drained cornfields which now fill up that black half-mile[.]

   1866, Charles Kingsley, chapter 28, in Hereward the Wake, London: Nelson, page 386

2. Northern EnglandScotlandOne who builds stone walls, usually dry-stone without lime.