Note E187 — 37.
Reading edition
"Feb, fill the dike." In Mr. Robinson's Whitby Glossary is given as a weather expression of Yorkshire: "February fill-dike, and March muck't out." Another form is in Hazlitt's Eng. Proverbs:
"February fill dike be it black or be it white: But if it be white, it's better to like."
"Fevrier remplit les fosses: Mars les seche."—Fr. Provb.
See also Swainson's Weather Folklore, pp. 40-42.—Note by Mr. J. Britten, F.L.S.