Definition of "diche" [diche]

• A Middle English form of ditch.

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "M {en}. weneð bon siker þurh walle ⁊ þurh diche. þe deð his echte on sikere stude he hit sent to heueneriche."
• "The remedie for this, is to builde in the plain, and to make the diche that compasseth thy citee, so deepe, that the enemie maie not digge lower then thesame, where he shall not finde water, whiche onely is enemie to the caves: for if thou be in a toune, which thou defendest on"
• "Lorde of the bridges of his side, ordainyng, that thei should fall upon postes, in the middest of the diche."