Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A small anchor, especially one made of a stone in a wooden frame.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
killock .
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- noun A small
anchor .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Here he threw out the killick and unwound the line from his fishing pole.
Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler William Senior
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In the shallow water near the beach, we dropped our killick.
Jim Davis John Masefield 1922
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I pulled up my killick on the instant and paddled over to see what was going on, and what the creature was that had leaped out of the grass.
Wood Folk at School William Joseph Long 1909
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Now, Tate, you can up killick and set sail for home.
The Skipper and the Skipped Being the Shore Log of Cap'n Aaron Sproul Holman Day 1900
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A breeze at nightfall fanned her along, and when her killick went down, the rusty chain groaned querulously from her hawse-hole.
Blow The Man Down A Romance Of The Coast - 1916 Holman Day 1900
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"I reckon the old man will be dropping the killick before long," he said.
Blow The Man Down A Romance Of The Coast - 1916 Holman Day 1900
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So I rouses up my killick, and makes sail; and whilst I was doing it, I hears two reports, one close upon t'other.
For Treasure Bound Harry Collingwood 1886
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We seated ourselves on a rock near the water; just beside us was the old boat, with its killick and painter stretched ashore, where its owner had left it.
Deephaven and Selected Stories & Sketches Sarah Orne Jewett 1879
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Kate and I cracked our clams on the gunwale of the boat, and cut them into nice little bits for bait with a piece of the shell, and by the time the captain had thrown out the killick we were ready to begin, and found the fishing much more exciting than it had been at the wharf.
Deephaven and Selected Stories & Sketches Sarah Orne Jewett 1879
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I have a little model of a fishing dory that Georgie made for me, with its sprit-sail and killick and painter and oars and gaff all cleverly cut with the clumsiest of jackknives.
An Arrow in a Sunbeam and Other Tales Frances Lee 1879
mollusque commented on the word killick
Kate and I cracked our clams on the gunwale of the boat, and cut them into nice little bits for bait with a piece of the shell, and by the time the captain had thrown out the killick we were ready to begin, and found the fishing much more exciting than it had been at the wharf.
--Sarah Orne Jewett, 1877, Deephaven
January 28, 2010
GregMurray commented on the word killick
There is another meaning for the word.In the Royal Navy (RN) and Royal Canadian Navies it is the slang term for the Leading Seaman. The term almost certainly originates from the fact that in those navies, and others descended from the RN the rank badge for a Leading Seaman was an Anchor,
"When the Killick is happy, we can secure for the day"
August 10, 2013