Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The arm of a pickax or the fluke of an anchor.
- noun A small anchor or weight for mooring a boat, sometimes consisting of a stone secured by pieces of wood.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A small anchor; also, a kind of anchor formed by a stone inclosed by pieces of wood fastened together.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A small
anchor . - noun A kind of anchor formed by a
stone enclosed by pieces ofwood fastened together.
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Examples
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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 Oliver Optic 1859
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To jest up killock, jam right down their hellum hard a lee,
The Biglow Papers James Russell Lowell 1855
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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 Thomas Chandler Haliburton 1830
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