Tike or Tyke.  A dog; an unruly fellow.  Icel. tík, Sw. tík.  There is a tradition that a Curwen of Workington Hall shot a Howard of Corby in a duel on Carlisle Sands, during an assize meeting, for offensively using the word "tyle" to him.  Tyke is a trickster, especially in dealings in horses, and in this acceptation the word seems, like the character which it represents, to have come to us from Yorkshire.  What tyke means in that county, and hence often in Lakeland also, may be made evident from the following description of "A Yorkshire Tyke."  "Bane ta Clapham town gate, liv'd an owd Yorksher tike / Who i dealing i horseflesh had ne'er met his like, / Twor his pride that ive au the hard bargains hede hit, / Hede bit a girt monny, bud nivver been bit."  Nidderdale Almanac, 1873. (Lakeland and Iceland: A Glossary of Words in the Dialect of Cumberland, Westmorland and North Lancashire, Ellwood, 1895).