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  • verb Obsolete form of peek.
  • verb Obsolete form of pick.
  • noun Obsolete form of pike.

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Examples

  • Hee wuz gonna put teh hed onna pyke…butt it wuz tew smal

    ..and after cruely - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2010

  • ¶ Then reson hy {m} co {m} mauded pyke hy {m} the {n} s lightly.

    The Assemble of Goddes Anonymous

  • And his shoone pyke a loverds [43] mighte have binne;

    The Rowley Poems Thomas Chatterton

  • Weybridge, but they seldom catch a pyke, I know, for I have watched them.

    Highways and Byways in Surrey Eric Parker 1912

  • "Your father was very fond of his meat, I mind; he was a hearty, if not a great eater; but as for me, I could never do mair than pyke at food."

    Kidnapped: The Adventures of David Balfour 1886

  • "Your father was very fond of his meat, I mind; he was a hearty, if not a great eater; but as for me, I could never do mair than pyke at food."

    Kidnapped Robert Louis Stevenson 1872

  • ++To go to sewynge of fysshe: musculade, menewes in sewe of porpas or of samon, bacon hery {n} ge w {i} t {h} suger, grene fysshe, pyke, lampraye, salens, porpas rosted, bake gurnade, and lampraye bake.

    Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867

  • Bre {n} na is a breme, & it is a fisshe of the riuer/& whan he seeth the pyke that wyll take hym/than he sinketh to the botom of {th} e wat {er} & maketh it so trobelous that the pyke can nat se hym.

    Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867

  • I, for my pairt, confess nae obligation but to drap workin, and sit doon wi 'clean han's, or as clean as I can weel mak them, to the speeritooal table o' my Lord, whaur I aye try as weel to weir a clean and a cheerfu 'face -- that is, sae far as the sermon will permit -- and there's aye a pyke o' mate somewhaur intil 't!

    Salted with Fire George MacDonald 1864

  • "Noo, Annie, lass, ye'll be a guid bairn, and do as ye're tell't. An 'min' and no pyke the things i 'the chop."

    Alec Forbes of Howglen George MacDonald 1864

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