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crick†

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

This spelling represents a pronunciation long established in Canada at the popular, especially rural, level; the variant exists in many British dialects and goes back several centuries. See note at creek.

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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any freshwater stream smaller than a river.

See: creek(def. 1)

Quotations

<i>c</i>1777

"Geo Hardt now inform'd us their was a french Wigwam up a Crick about half a mile off. . . ."

1832

. . . it's well that ever we got to this place, with them roads, and the floods, and the cricks, and the axes going . . . and the mistress almost destroyed, and the children as bad.

1960

We have even eaten a couple of gift trout taken from Bick's Crick.