Also dial. w(h)ick. [f. QUICK sb.2] To pull up ‘quicks’ or couch-grass. Hence Quicking-drag (see quot. 1800), -rake.
1800. Tuke, Agric., 85. Quicking drag. In the northern part of the vale of York, a drag on an excellent construction is used, for cleaning the land from quicks.
1874. E. Peacock, J. Markenfield, III. 113. Their boys and girls released from school, or, as is more probable as regards the elder, from ‘wicking’ and ‘singling’ turnips, were disporting themselves according to nature.
