killock

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The young fisherman was satisfied, hauled up killock, and made sail for home.

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  1. noun Variant of killick.

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  • The young fisherman was satisfied, hauled up killock, and made sail for home. —  Little By Little or, The Cruise of the Flyaway
  • To jest up killock, jam right down their hellum hard a lee, —  The Biglow Papers
  • So, what with Marm Lecain's carpets in the house, and other folks 'waistcoats in the street, it's too nice a location for me, I guess, so I shall up killock and off tomorrow to the TREE-mont. " —  The Clockmaker
 

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  1. Also spelled killick, killeck, kelleck, kellock, and formerly keelek, keeleg; origin obscure.
 

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