killock

• Format: Manuscript
• Language: English
• Published: 1970
• Subjects: English language > Dialects > Newfoundland and Labrador; Newfoundland
• Online Access: http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/elrcdne/id/38836

killick n "The [seal] net is extended at the bottom by a mooring and killock fixed to each end, and it is frequently placed in forty fathoms of water, for we observe that the largest seals are caught in the deepest water. To each end of the head-rope is fixed a pole standing erect in the wat er to guide the sealers to the net, and when these poles are torn away by ice they are directed by land-marks, and find their nets with creepers. PRINTED ITEM W. J. KIRWIN AUG 1970 JH AUG 1970 Used I and Sup Used I and Sup 1 Used I cillick, kellick, killock, lose your killick, and [you'll] find it in the fall, have a rock in one's killick, killick-claw, killick-rod, killick-stone, keel-log, kellock, keylock, GRANNY 2 Checked by Raji Sreeni on Fri 10 Jul 2015 The beginning of this quote ("the [seal] net . fixed to each end") appears in DNE I, but is attributed to the following source: [1802] 1895 PROWSE 419.