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Webster 1913 Edition


Wike

Wike

,
Noun.
A temporary mark or boundary, as a bough of a tree set up in marking out or dividing anything, as tithes, swaths to be mowed in common ground, etc.; – called also
wicker
.
[Prov. Eng.]

Wike

,
Noun.
[AS.
wic
. See
Wick
a village.]
A home; a dwelling.
[Obs. or Prov. Eng.]

Definition 2024


wike

wike

English

Noun

wike (plural wikes)

  1. (obsolete, Britain, dialect) A home; a dwelling.
  2. A temporary mark or boundary, such as a tree bough set up in marking out or dividing anything, such as tithes, swaths to be mowed in shared ground, etc.


West Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian wike, from Proto-Germanic *wikǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *weig-, *weik- (to bend, wind, turn, yield). Compare English and Dutch week, German Woche.

Noun

wike c (plural wiken)

  1. week