verb. (old).—To move about. Also to carry off; to arrest.
1811. GROSE and CLARKE, Lexicon Balatronicum, s.v. HIKE. TO HIKE OFF; to run away.
1884. Daily Telegraph, 2 Feb., p. 3. c. 1. We three, not having any regler homes nor a steady job of work to stick to, HIKE ABOUT for a living, and we live in the cellar of a empty house.
