sike

plural sikes · alternative syke · alternative syke

1. NorthumbriaScotlandA gutter or ditch; a small stream that frequently dries up in the summer; the marshy ground or ditch through which such a stream flows.

   [...] a great gathering o' their folk at the Miry-sikes, […]

   1820, Walter Scott, Tales of My Landlord: 2nd Series, Collectd and Arranged by Jedediah Cleishbotham [pseud.], page 6

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   The swankies lap thro' mire and syke, Wow as their heads did birr!

   1809, John Skinner, Amusements of Leisure Hours, or Poetical Pieces, chiefly in the Scottish dialect, page 41

   It neither grew in syke nor ditch, Nor yet in ony sheugh;[…]

   1859, William Lonsdale Watkinson, William Theophilus Davison, The London Quarterly Review, page 278

   The wind made wave the red weed on the dike. Bedoven in dankès deep was every sike;[…]

   1876, Rosaline Orme Masson, Three Centuries of English Poetry: Being Selections from Chaucer to Herrick, A Scotch Winter Evening in 1512, page 160

   […] hills and mountains, moss or mure, bank or syke, sea or shore,[…]

   1937, Scottish History Society, Publications of the Scottish History Society

   The march of that herding is to come from the Rispie syke to the point at Blood syke Bottom to the stone syke-head.

   1952 [1776], Dumfriesshire and Galloway Natural History and Antiquarian Society, Transactions and Journal of Proceedings

present singular third person sikes · participle present siking · participle past siked · past siked · alternative syke

1. Northern EnglandarchaicTo sigh or sob.

plural sikes · alternative syke

1. Northern EnglandarchaicA sigh.

alternative syke

1. YorkshireSuch.

   She macks sike warke.

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alternative syke

1. alternativeslangAlternative spelling of psych.