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/saɪk/ · noun
(Scotland, Northumbria) 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..
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.
She macks sike warke.
Use sike when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Sike means (Scotland, Northumbria) 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..
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The opposite depends on the specific sense.
The swankies lap thro' mire and syke, Wow as their heads did birr!
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