Obs. [app. f. WICK a. + HALSE sb.1, neck.] app. A gallows-bird, rogue.
1338. R. Brunne, Chron. (1725), 267. To while þise cardinals trauaild for þe pes, Here of a wikhals how he bigan a res.
c. 1400. Laud Troy Bk., 10086. Let him neuere dye or no wyk-hals!
