† sichet Obs.
[f. ME. siche sitch; recorded only in Latinized forms sichetus, -a, -um.]
A small watercourse. Cf. siket.
| c 1133 in Dugdale Mon. Angl. (1825) V. 323/1 Ad quendam sichetum versus austrum. 1258 in Madox Formul. Angl. 88 Tres [selliones] jacentes inter Terram..et Sichetam sive Sicheta. [c 1260–80 in Eyton Antiq. Shropshire (1859) IX. 187 Nine seylions.., whereof three lay beyond the sichet towards Sponleg.] 1319 Reg. Dunfermline (Bann. Cl.) 149 Ascendendo..per vnum Sychetum se extendentem apud Le Aly.., & sic ab illo sycheto [etc.]. |