was sicking

• past progressive

  past progressive

  Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.

  of sic.
  sic

  verb (used with object)

  to attack (used especially in commanding a dog).

Example Sentences

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was sicking

The first thing I knew he was sicking the agents for the new typewriting machine on to me, and he kept them pounding away until they had made me give them a trial.

From Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son Being the Letters written by John Graham, Head of the House of Graham & Company, Pork-Packers in Chicago, familiarly known on 'Change as "Old Gorgon Graham," to his Son, Pierrepont, facetiously known to his intimates as "Piggy." by George Horace Lorimer

And I seen he was sicking his intellects onto the job of making her pay.

From Danny's Own Story by Don Marquis

Where had he been all this time, anyway!—and her nearly out of her head thinkin' this rotten woman downstairs was sicking the Board o' Health on to her!

From The Vehement Flame by Margaret Wade Campbell Deland

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