DCHP-2
killick † killock [origin unknown] Esp. East DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
See 1957 quote.
- 1774 (1792) Having filled up the boat with . . . pryor-poles and killick-rods, at highwater we sailed home.
- 1835 So what with Marm Lecain's corsets in the house, and other folks waistcoats in the Street, its too nice a location for me, I guess, so I shall up killock and off. . . .
- 1957 The captain showed me the two boats left in a port which once supported fifty, a crude winch to drag them from the water, and the eight-hundred pound killicks of long, thin stones tied to wooden crosses that serve as anchors.
- 1774 (1792) Having filled up the boat with . . . pryor-poles and killick-rods, at highwater we sailed home.