north. Also 8 stick. [? f. STEEK v.1] A strike (of workmen).
α. 1768. Ann. Reg., 92/2. The keelmen of Sunderland made a stick, refusing to work.
1825. Brockett, N. C. Gloss., Stick, or Strike, a stand or combination among workmen.
β. 1844. M. A. Richardson, Local Historian’s Table Bk., Leg. Div. II. 2. A somewhat serious disagreement between the keelmen of the Tyne and their employers, which ended in a steek of long continuance.
1862. Smiles, Engineers, III. 10. They were … hard workers, but very wild and uncouth; much given to ‘steeks,’ or strikes.
