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killick, killock Naut.|ˈkɪlɪk, -ək|
Also 7 kelleck(e, -ock, 8–9 -ick, 9 -agh, eg, keeleg.
[Of obscure origin; the spelling is unfixed, but most favour killick or killock.]
a. A heavy stone used on small vessels as a substitute for an anchor; also a small anchor. † to come to a killick: to come to anchor (obs.). up killick: to weigh anchor.
1630Winthrop New Eng. (1825) I. 40 The wind overblew so much at N.W. as they were forced to come to a killock at twenty fathom. 1632T. Morton New Eng. Canaan (1883) 262 The inconstant windes shiftinge at night did force the kellecke home, and billedge the boat. 1643R. Williams Key Lang. Amer. 111 Kunnosnep, a Killick, or Anchor. 1670Narborough Jrnl. in Acc. Sev. Late Voy. i. (1711) 107 Instead of Anchors, they have modern Crab-claws, or Kellocks. 1758Ann. Reg. 292/1 They sent out another float, with killicks and ropes. 1768J. Byron Narr. Paragonia (ed. 2) 82 We hove up our..Kellick, which we had made to serve in the room of our grapnel. 1837–40Haliburton Clockm. viii. (1862) 29, I shall up killoch and off to-morrow to the Tree mont. 1840R. H. Dana Bef. Mast xiv. 32 We usually keep anchored by a small kedge, or keeleg. 1883Times 18 May 7 With some bits of wood and a large stone..[is] fashioned a very good kedge or killick. 1897R. Kipling Capt. Cour. 63 Dad says next one [anchor] he loses..he'll give him the kelleg.
b. A leading seaman's badge, bearing the symbol of an anchor; hence, a leading seaman. Also attrib. or as adj., leading, chief. colloq.
1915‘Bartimeus’ Tall Ship iii. 62 He paid for the misplaced generosity of his well-wisher with his ‘Killick’. (footnote) Anchor. The distinctive badge of a leading rating. 1920― Unreality ii. iii. 115 Picked up my killick. Ibid. iv. 126 The sight-setter raised his brows at the red worsted anchor adorning Bill's sleeve. ‘Killick, eh!’ he ejaculated. 1925Fraser & Gibbons Soldier & Sailor Words 135 Killick.., the lower deck term for the Petty Officers' Anchor arm badge. 1930G. Wells Naval Customs 91 Killick,..a slang term for a ‘leading seaman’. 1945‘Tackline’ Holiday Sailor xiv. 143 Been in barracks for a matter of six months. Killick then, o' course. 1949Partridge Dict. Slang Add. 1092/2 Killick-scribe, a Leading Writer. |