Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Nautical, the material used to keckle a cable.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Old rope or iron chains wound around a cable. See
keckle , v. t.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Old
rope oriron chains wound around acable .
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Examples
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A cock pheasant made a most admired stir and keckling in seeing his wife and brood to roost on the branches of one of King James's age-old Scotch firs.
The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance Lucas Malet 1891
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They gang about keckling and screighing after the working men, like
Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet An Autobiography Charles Kingsley 1847
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I wouldna be deaved wi 'your keckling for a' your eggs.
The Proverbs of Scotland Alexander Hislop 1836
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"Now I take this very kind, Mr. Craig; for I could not have expected you, considering ye have got, as I am told, your jo in the house"; at which words the Doctor winked paukily to Mr. Daff, who rubbed his hands with fainness, and gave a good-humoured sort of keckling laugh.
The Ayrshire Legatees, or, the Pringle family John Galt 1809
chained_bear commented on the word keckling
"... the art of winding old rope, &c. about a cable, to preserve its surface from being fretted, when it rubs against the ship's bow, or fore-foot; but more particularly it implies the winding of iron chains round the cable to defend it from the friction of a rocky bottom, or from ice, &c."
—Falconer's New Universal Dictionary of the Marine (1816), 209
October 14, 2008
bilby commented on the word keckling
No, I'm sure this word refers to the anonymous bits of food goop seemingly welded to the bottom of the oven.
October 14, 2008