keckle

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English

Verb

keckle (third-person singular simple present keckles, present participle keckling, simple past and past participle keckled)

  1. (nautical) To wind rope or chains around (a cable etc.) to protect its surface from friction, abrasion, or ice.
    • 1813, Seamanship, Both in Theory and Practice:
      Large vessels should have twelve or fourteen fathoms of service, half of it rounded and the rest plaited and keckled.

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