Soak dike
![Soak Dike, Skeffling; the left bank protects the flat farmland between the Humber and Skeffling village](/Images/godic/202501/06/Soak_Dike,_Skeffling_-_geograph.org.uk_-_12626344953.jpg")
The term Soak dike is used in The Fens of eastern England to mean a ditch or drain running parallel with an embankment, for the purpose of taking any water that soaks through from the river or drain beyond the bank. In Lincolnshire, sock dyke was formerly a frequently found form of the expression.