keylock n

• Format: Manuscript
• Language: English
• Published: 1990
• Subjects: English language > Dialects > Newfoundland and Labrador; Newfoundland
• Online Access: http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/elrcdne/id/39216

killick n "The examination of Samuel Wood servant to John Rolson of Reynolds of Toads Cove taken on board his Mats ship Assistance the 22d day of August 1680." The examination reports Wood as saying: ".about 6 weeks after theirs settinge out att the Admlls place at the Isle of Colinet by bad weather theire shalloway wch they had of the said Xpher Pollard splitt in two pieces & dam- maged the small remaindr of provisions which they had left soe they launcht a new shalloway from the Admlls place & put the rest of theire provisions into her & moord her with 2 keylocks." I haven't noticed any other early uses of this word, though I have run into it as a name! JAN 23 1990 W. J. KIRWIN [file killick] Used I and Sup Used Sup 1 Used Sup 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 Wed 22 Jul 2015