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killick †
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Esp. East
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Spelling variants:killock
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
See 1957 quote.
Quotations
1774
Having filled up the boat with . . . pryor-poles and killick-rods, at highwater we sailed home.
1835
So what with Marm Lecain's corsets in the house, and other folks waistcoats in the Street, its too nice a location for me, I guess, so I shall up killock and off. . . .
1957
The captain showed me the two boats left in a port which once supported fifty, a crude winch to drag them from the water, and the eight-hundred pound killicks of long, thin stones tied to wooden crosses that serve as anchors.