A person who builds, maintains, or works on dikes and embankments, or a specialist in dike engineering.
From 'dike' + the agent suffix '-er', meaning 'one who does something.' This occupational word emerged naturally to describe the skilled workers essential to Low Country hydraulics.
Medieval dikers were the civil engineers of their time—they had to understand soil mechanics, water pressure, and seasonal patterns centuries before physics became formal science. They basically invented practical hydraulic engineering!
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