a provincial term for sod or turf.

Feal-Dikes, a cheap sort of fence common in Scotland; built with feal or sod dug up by the spade from the surface of grass ground, consisting of the upper mould rendered tough and coherent by the matted roots of the grass thickly interwoven with it. If only a very thin bit of the upper surface is pared off with a paring spade, the pieces are called divots. These being of a firmer consistence, are more durable when built into dikes than feal, but much more expensive also.