siket Now dial.
Forms: 3–5, 9 siket (4 syket), 5–6, 9 sicket, 9 secket.
[f. sike n.1 + -et1: cf. sichet. Recorded chiefly in the Latinized forms sikettus, -etus.]
A small watercourse or sike.
| 1300 in Archaeologia (1857) XXXVII. 435 Per quendam sikettum qui vocatur Cavereswellebrok. Ibid., Inde per eundem sikettum usque ad..Kavereshull. 1318–9 in Dugdale Monast. Angl. (1830) VI. i. 558/1 In longitudine inter duos sikettos, quorum unus cadit inter Northwayt et Waytwra. 1479 Priory of Hexham (Surtees) II. 16 A fonte praedicto versus austrum per j sikettum usque Sewynscheles moss. Ibid., Per dictum bogg usque quoddam siketum. 1550 Survey Borders in Hodgson Northumb. (1828) II. iii. 184 From thence till a place over a letche or litle sicket called the stepping stones. 1894 Heslop Northumbld. Gloss., Sicket, siket, secket, a small syke, a small brook, a rivulet. |