DCHP-1 Online

crick † 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.

• n. any freshwater stream smaller than a river.

  See also: creek (def. 1)  

  • c1777  (1955)  "Geo Hardt now inform'd us their was a french Wigwam up a Crick about half a mile off. . . ."
  • 1832  (1953)  . . . 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.