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Quotation dates: 1627-1663
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Wick, Weike, n.1 [17th c. Eng. weeke (1664-5), ON vík.] A small bay or inlet. — 1627 Edinburgh Testaments LIV 173.
Thomas Dowell in the Weike of Caithenes 1663 Edinb. B. Rec. IX 318.
[They] have sold … all that plantatioun in the island of Barbadoes … with all and singular the messuages, lands, tenements, mills, wicks, negroes, stock [etc.]
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