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Sike

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n.1.A gutter; a stream, such as is usually dry in summer.
1.A sick person.
v. i.1.To sigh.
That for his wife weepeth and siketh sore.
- Chaucer.
n.1.A sigh.
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But I'm dom'd if ar can gang to bed and not tellee, for weedur's sak', to keep the lattle boy from a' sike scoondrels while there's a harse to hoold in a' Lunnun, or a gootther to lie asleep in
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby by Dickens, Charles View in context
There's Bill Sikes in the passage with nobody to do the civil to him; and you sleeping there, as if you took laudanum with your meals, and nothing stronger.
Oliver Twist Or The Parish Boy's Progress by Dickens, Charles View in context
 
 
 
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