Meaning of sike | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A gutter or ditch; a small stream that frequently dries up in the summer; the marshy ground or ditch through which such a stream flows.
   Northumbria, Scotland
2. A sigh.
   Northern-England, archaic

Examples

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

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

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

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

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

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

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