| Summary: | killick n [hint from Crate:] DINNEEN cailleach a veiled woman, a nun, a woman celibate . fig. a fir stump found in bogs, a stone boat-anchor, a hanging thatch-weight, etc, etc. [WK doesn't know how this is pronounced. Looks like kall --- as in callow. There is no historical dictionary, so we don't know when these words were used. The figurative boat-anchor would have to have appeared before 1630 to affect North American development. If I can find more on this from bigger dict's, we should probably cp. [Second thoughts: If anyone returning and using _killick_ in his Irish speech, it might easily have been spelled as above.JUN. 9 1978] WK JAN. 14 1978 Used I and Sup Used I and Sup Not used 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 08 Jul 2015
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