Nikki shrugged and gently reduced her speed as they approached a hump back bridge over a dyke.
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‘I’m pretty sure he, or maybe they, used the dyke.’ Nikki pointed to the narrow waterway that ran close to the barn. ‘With all the summer rain we’ve had of late, you could easily get a small boat along there.’
Source: Crime on the Fens by Joy Ellis
If you say that a humpback bridge runs over a dyke, you mean over a pair of dykes, one on each side of the waterway, right? Or does dyke refer refer to the embankments at the both sides of the waterway? How else would a narrow waterway run close to the barn?
Thank you.
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‘I’m pretty sure he, or maybe they, used the dyke.’ Nikki pointed to the narrow waterway that ran close to the barn. ‘With all the summer rain we’ve had of late, you could easily get a small boat along there.’
Source: Crime on the Fens by Joy Ellis
If you say that a humpback bridge runs over a dyke, you mean over a pair of dykes, one on each side of the waterway, right? Or does dyke refer refer to the embankments at the both sides of the waterway? How else would a narrow waterway run close to the barn?
Thank you.