A house or place to live; later, a village or hamlet. This word is also found in placenames as the place where certain food was grown, e.g. Berwick = a barley farm, Chiswick = a cheese farm. [< OldEngl. wic = dwelling, house < Lat. vicus = village, a street of houses, a living place] -
Dictionary of Medieval Terms and Phrases. Christopher Coredon with Ann Williams.