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E's converts included the daughter of the Roman
> governor---who was so enranged that he sikked the butchers of the
> town on E, who killed him with meat axes.
Phyllis -
Is "sikked" a misprint or a new slang word ? Unfamiliar to me and not in my
Random House Dictionary which is US based & has an excellent list of usages
both sides of the pond. (I get the general drift, of course: egged on, hyped
up, &c.)
BMC
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