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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.]
Definition 2024
wike
wike
English
Noun
wike (plural wikes)
- (obsolete, Britain, dialect) A home; a dwelling.
- 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)