Sc. and dial. Forms: 7 weeke, 8 wike, 9 wick, wik, wyck, wyke. [a. ON. vík fem. (occurring in place-names, but not usually distinguishable in form from WICK sb.2), whence app. also MLG. wîk (LG. wiek, wicke), MDu. wijck, Fris. wik bay; f. OTeut. wÇk- to bend, as if = a bend.] A creek, inlet, or small bay.
[1610. Camden, Brit., I. 326. From hence the Tamis goeth to Green-wich, that is, the Green Creeke, for the creeke of a river in the old English tongue was called Wic, a place in times past famous for the Danish Fleet that lay there often at Rode.]
1664–5. Patent Roll 16 Chas. II., Pt. 8 (MS.). (Charter of the Royal Fishing Company) The greate Plentie of Fish wherewith the Seas Estuaries or Inletts Creekes Armes of the Sea Publick Rivers Weekes and Lakes of Our Dominions … doe abound.
1753. Scots Mag., Aug., 417/1. We have as many [herrings] come into our wike as would fill 300 barrels.
1821. Scott, Pirate, xix. By beach and by cave,—… By air and by wick.
1846. Brockett, N. C. Gloss. (ed. 3), Wik, Wyck, or Wyke, a crook or corner, as in a river or the sea shore.
1878. R. Dick, Geol. & Bot., viii. 85. Between this and Rough Head is a wick or bay.
