1 gen 1635 anni - syke

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A regional term for a stream of no great size. It occurred commonly as the name of hillside becks, especially those which defined boundaries. 1502 <i>inter un syke vocat Dyksyke ex boreal</i>, Hepworth (MD225/1/228); 1574 <i>one sicke or brook which parts Derbyshire and Hallamshire - </i>later referred to as the said <i>sicke or ditch </i>(Hunter12). 1635 <i>certain bounderes sett amongest the Peatepittes ... one syke or water which runneth by the horwithens</i>, Northowram (MD225/1/361). </br> It was also the word for the water channels used as boundaries in the open arable fields, although many early examples are in undated documents: n.d. ‘and 1½ roods of land in three selions abutting on<i> le Sykes’, Hornington</i> (YRS50/81); 1291 ‘half an acre by <i>Stokeldsyk</i> ... one acre between <i>le Sykes’</i>, Hackness (YRS69/45); 1352 ‘and by <i>le syk</i> an acre of land abutting on <i>le Wellecroft</i>’, Parlington (YRS39/132); <i>c</i>.1490 <i>the whyche syke was wonte in my tyme and in my fadyr days as he sayd me to be drawyn with a plough for a mere on that syde bytwene Sand Hoton and Brakynbargh</i> (YAJ2/91); 1612 ‘land ... in the West Field ... abutting on a certain stream (<i>gurgitem</i>) called <i>le Sewer vel le Kirkesicke</i>’, Methley (Th35/88). See Sykes (GRDict).

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