kelleg, killick <span class="searchmatch">killock</span> (plural <span class="searchmatch">killocks</span>) A small anchor. A kind of anchor formed by a stone enclosed by pieces of wood fastened together. The fluke of...
<span class="searchmatch">killock</span> hitches plural of <span class="searchmatch">killock</span> hitch...
killick hitch <span class="searchmatch">killock</span> hitch (plural <span class="searchmatch">killock</span> hitches) A timber hitch knot with added half hitch used to attach a line or rope to a <span class="searchmatch">killock</span> anchor, usually...
<span class="searchmatch">killocks</span> plural of <span class="searchmatch">killock</span>...
See also: Killick killick (plural killicks) Alternative form of <span class="searchmatch">killock</span>....
killick hitch (plural killick hitches) Alternative form of <span class="searchmatch">killock</span> hitch. • The Ashley Book of Knots →ISBN -- Knot ref 271...
kelk, kedlock From Middle English *<span class="searchmatch">killock</span>, kellock, from earlier ketlok, kedlock, from Old English cedelc (“mercury (herb)”). Cognate with Scots skelloch...
Syllabification: ko‧twicz‧ka kotwiczka f (nautical) diminutive of kotwica; <span class="searchmatch">killock</span> (fishing) fishhook with several arms (arthropod anatomy) cardo (basal joint...
kelleg (plural kellegs) Alternative form of <span class="searchmatch">killock</span>. 1897, Rudyard Kipling, Captains Courageous: "Big stone instid of an anchor. You kin see a kelleg...
small anchor used for warping a vessel. Synonyms: kedge anchor, kedger, <span class="searchmatch">killock</span> 1840, Richard Henry Dana Jr., Two Years Before the Mast: ...and throw them...