A fyke is a fishnet, with long wings on each side; in shape like a nightcap with ear lappets; in mechanism like a rat-trap.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Masterpieces of American Wit and Humor Volume I] Reference

A fyke is a good thing to have in the country.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Masterpieces of American Wit and Humor Volume I] Reference

He spoke of fyke-nets and drag-nets and warp-lines, and of eel-spearing through the ice.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 26, September, 1880] Reference

There will be no fyke now with trying to please him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kirsteen: The Story of a Scotch Family Seventy Years Ago] Reference

Then I jumped out of the boat to save the fyke, and the boat got away.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Masterpieces of American Wit and Humor Volume I] Reference

Infirmary, for a 've eneuch withoot ony fyke (delicate work) o 'that kind.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kate Carnegie and Those Ministers] Reference

I got the loose end fastened to the boat, and found it impossible to row back against the tide with the fyke.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Masterpieces of American Wit and Humor Volume I] Reference

Trials have shown that the best way to catch them is by the use of fyke nets, long bag-shaped nets which are held open by hoops.    From Wordnik.com.  [EcoEarth.Info Environment RSS Newsfeed] Reference

I drove the stakes in the mud, spread the fyke in the boat, tied the end of one wing to the stake, and cast the whole into the water.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Masterpieces of American Wit and Humor Volume I] Reference

Then I had to swim again after the boat and row after the fyke, and finally was glad to get my net on dry land, where I left it for a week in the sun.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Masterpieces of American Wit and Humor Volume I] Reference

The trials showed that the fyke nets used to catch the crabs attracted a substantial bycatch of eels, which are increasingly considered a threatened species in Europe.    From Wordnik.com.  [EcoEarth.Info Environment RSS Newsfeed] Reference

I hae often wondered that ony ane that ever bent a knee for the right purpose, should ever daur to crook a hough to fyke and fling at piper's wind and fiddler's squealing.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Heart of Mid-Lothian] Reference

Sandy, loonikie, your exyems may do amon 'your triangles an' sic like fyke-facks an 'kyowows, but they're a' blethers you see brawly ony ither wey. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [My Man Sandy] Reference

I hae often wondered that ony ane that ever bent a knee for the right purpose, should ever daur to crook a hough to fyke and fling at piper’s wind and fiddler’s squealing.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Heart of Mid-Lothian] Reference

"I had fyke enough with her when she was stationed in the Forth.    From Wordnik.com.  [David Balfour, Second Part Being Memoirs Of His Adventures At Home And Abroad, The Second Part: In Which Are Set Forth His Misfortunes Anent The Appin Murder; His Troubles With Lord Advocate Grant; Captivity On The Bass Rock; Journey Into Holland And France; And Singular Relations With James More Drummond Or Macgregor, A Son Of The Notorious Rob Roy, And His Daughter Catriona] Reference

And ye could never imagine the fyke and fash this man has been to me. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [David Balfour, Second Part Being Memoirs Of His Adventures At Home And Abroad, The Second Part: In Which Are Set Forth His Misfortunes Anent The Appin Murder; His Troubles With Lord Advocate Grant; Captivity On The Bass Rock; Journey Into Holland And France; And Singular Relations With James More Drummond Or Macgregor, A Son Of The Notorious Rob Roy, And His Daughter Catriona] Reference

Then the fyke got away.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Masterpieces of American Wit and Humor Volume I] Reference

I have bought me a fyke!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Masterpieces of American Wit and Humor Volume I] Reference

As bees bizz out wi 'angry fyke.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Witch of Salem or Credulity Run Mad] Reference

That is the philosophy of a fyke.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Masterpieces of American Wit and Humor Volume I] Reference

But mebbe after a’ your fyke, 15.    From Wordnik.com.  [XV. To Doctor John Brown] Reference

Straucht on my hinderlands I fyke.    From Wordnik.com.  [X. Their Laureate to an Academy Class Dinner Club] Reference

Then I rowed back and untied the fyke.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Masterpieces of American Wit and Humor Volume I] Reference

Wha can do nought but fyke and fumble.    From Wordnik.com.  [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] Reference

Wha can do nought but fyke an’ fumble.    From Wordnik.com.  [On a Scotch Bard, gone to the West Indies] Reference

By its own strength; of its own force. fyke net.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of the United States, Volume 5 (of 6)] Reference

A fish trap, a fyke.    From Wordnik.com.  [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XVIII No 3] Reference

Until ye fyke.    From Wordnik.com.  [Second Epistle to Davie] Reference

Until yo fyke.    From Wordnik.com.  [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] Reference

"Strangely fidge and fyke.".    From Wordnik.com.  [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] Reference