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byke

British  
/ bəɪk, baɪk /

noun

  1. a variant spelling of bike 2

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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They'll be up the stair swarmin' like a bee's byke.'

From The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)

Before the autumn sun had struggled through the mist, the badgers came home, grunting with comfort begotten of a raided bees' byke and truffles.

From Lives of the Fur Folk by Haviland, M. D.

Sae merrily the banes we’ll byke, And sun oursells about the dyke, And at our leisure, when ye like, We’ll whistle owre the lave o’t.

From The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham by Burns, Robert

It's a strang tow 'at wad haud or bin' Dawvid, whan he considers he bud to gang, an' 'twere intill a deil's byke.

From David Elginbrod by MacDonald, George

For the whole bees' byke of them would hunt down the robber band.

From The White Plumes of Navarre A Romance of the Wars of Religion by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)

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