tike3 (tik)

[ Now aren the i lowe cheorles, As wide as the worlde is wonyeth ther none Bote vnder tribut and taillage as tikes and cheorles. Piers Plowman (C), xxii. 37. He accounts them very honest Tikes , and can with all safety trust his Life in their Hands, for now and then Gilding their Palms for the good Services they do him. Quoted in Ashton's Social Life in Reign of Queen Anne, [II. 220..