Meaning
Stop and settle down — calm yourself, ease off, and take things easy. It is a call to cool down from excitement, agitation, or commotion, to stop the fussing and quarrelling and come to rest. 'Sekkle' (settle) carries the sense of coming to peace and stillness, and 'cease an sekkle' is said soothingly to someone worked up, or firmly to a noisy crowd or a restless child, telling them to quiet themselves and relax.
Examples
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Cease an sekkle, man, everyting under control.
Calm down, man, everything's under control.
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Di pickney dem a bawl till mi seh cease an sekkle.
The children were bawling until I told them to settle down.
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After di excitement, wi cease an sekkle fi di evening.
After the excitement, we settled down and relaxed for the evening.
Origin
Pairs 'cease' (stop) with 'sekkle' — the Patois form of 'settle' — for a doubled call to stop and calm down. See [[sekkle]].
How it’s used
A common instruction to calm down and relax, whether soothing or firm.