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síc

  • noun [ masculineneuter ]
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síc, es; n. : but síce, es; m.
seems also to occur. A sike. 'Sike a watercourse; applied to a natural as well as to an artificial stream; the latter usually constructed to receive the contents of field gutters, for discharge into the river.' Mid-Yorks. Gloss. See also E. D. S. Pub. 13, 15, and Old Farming Words, III
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  • Sike a quillet or furrow. Jamieson gives

    sike

    a rill. Cuddie Headrigg says 'I took up the syke a wee bit.' :-- Of ðam mere west . . . ðonne innan ánne síce, ðonne andlangc síces ðæt cymþ tó ðæm horpytte,
      Cod. Dip. Kmbl. iii. 37, 20-22.

  • Of ðæm beorge on ðæt síc; ondlong síces ofer ðone bróc,

      38, 28 : 35, 7.

  • In wǽtan síce; of ðæm wǽtan síce in ða bakas,

      382, 7: 386, 11.

  • In ðæt wǽte sícc; of ðam síce,

      386, 16.

  • On ðæt eástre síc,

      438, 28.

  • In ðæt síc, 31, 12. [Syke rivus, Wrt. Voc. i. 195, col. 2. Icel. sík a ditch, trench: O. H. Ger. gi-sích stagnum, lacus, palus (cf. Scott, sike

    a marshy bottom with a small stream running through it),

      Grff. vi. 58.
    ] Cf. seohtra.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “síc.” In An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Online, edited by Thomas Northcote Toller, Christ Sean, and Ondřej Tichy. Prague: Faculty of Arts, Charles University, 2014. https://bosworthtoller.com/27598.

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