killick
Americannoun
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a small anchor or weight for mooring a boat, sometimes consisting of a stone secured by pieces of wood.
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any anchor.
noun
Etymology
Origin of killick
First recorded in 1620–30; origin uncertain
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You can’t get down there without a killick or some other weight.”
From Devon Boys A Tale of the North Shore by Gordon Browne
So it was up helm, and in the dusk, the Rosita crept stealthily under the sombre shade of Creston, and let go the killick at the gap beneath the signal-tower.
From Los Gringos Or, An Inside View of Mexico and California, with Wanderings in Peru, Chili, and Polynesia by H. A. (Henry Augustus) Wise
"I reckon the old man will be dropping the killick before long," he said.
From Blow The Man Down A Romance Of The Coast - 1916 by Holman Day
A breeze at nightfall fanned her along, and when her killick went down, the rusty chain groaned querulously from her hawse-hole.
From Blow The Man Down A Romance Of The Coast - 1916 by Holman Day
Here he threw out the killick and unwound the line from his fishing pole.
From Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler by William Senior
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