▪ I. bick
Short for bick-iron (see beak-iron) or bickern.
| 1896 Farriers' Price List Suppl., Farriers' Anvils, with Steeled Bick. 1953 A. Jobson Househ. Crafts x. 112 The real hoops are made on a bick or beck-iron, which is an anvil mounted about 3 feet 6 inches high. 1957 R. Lister Dec. Wrought Ironwork ii. 12 The pointed cone at the opposite end is variously called a beak-iron, bickern, pike, bick, beak or horn. |
▪ II. bick
Sc. form of bitch, female dog.
| 1808 in Jamieson. 1826 J. Wilson Noct. Ambr. Wks. 1855 I. 217 See how the wee bick is worrying him again now. |