dikers

I mean, there were table after table filled with brush-tailed porcupines and pangolins and rats and cats and dikers, which are small antelope, crocodiles and monitor lizards and some of them they would roast alive.

CNN Transcript Jul 28, 2008 2008

Their armor and weapons were found at times, by delvers and dikers, for centuries after; are found at times unto this day, beneath the rich drained cornfields which now fill up that black half-mile, or in the bed of the narrow brook to which the Westwater, robbed of its streams by the Bedford Level, has dwindled down at last.

Hereward, the Last of the English Charles Kingsley 1847