Now, Tate, you can up killick and set sail for home.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Skipper and the Skipped Being the Shore Log of Cap'n Aaron Sproul] Reference

One of a number of photos from the "killick patrol".    From Wordnik.com.  [Army Rumour Service] Reference

To jest up killick, jam right down their hellum hard alee.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell] Reference

Here, lay hold of the rope and make a hitch round that killick.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lost Middy Being the Secret of the Smugglers' Gap] Reference

"I reckon the old man will be dropping the killick before long," he said.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blow The Man Down A Romance Of The Coast - 1916] Reference

So I rouses up my killick, and makes sail; and whilst I was doing it, I hears two reports, one close upon t'other.    From Wordnik.com.  [For Treasure Bound] Reference

A breeze at nightfall fanned her along, and when her killick went down, the rusty chain groaned querulously from her hawse-hole.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blow The Man Down A Romance Of The Coast - 1916] Reference

"Stand by with the killick, m'lad," cried Josh, as he paddled slowly now, with his eyes fixed first on one landmark, then on another.    From Wordnik.com.  [Menhardoc] Reference

In 1999, I was in San Francisco jumping from one glum galleon to another that promised to utilize my apparent killick-slinging skills.    From Wordnik.com.  [Edward Champion's Reluctant Habits] Reference

I pulled up my killick on the instant and paddled over to see what was going on, and what the creature was that had leaped out of the grass.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wood Folk at School] Reference

We seated ourselves on a rock near the water; just beside us was the old boat, with its killick and painter stretched ashore, where its owner had left it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Deephaven and Selected Stories & Sketches] Reference

Words such as bavin ` "splits" used for kindling 'or killick ` a type of anchor,' for instance, are referred to the OED, so the reader may well look there for an etymology.    From Wordnik.com.  [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol X No 2] Reference

I have a little model of a fishing dory that Georgie made for me, with its sprit-sail and killick and painter and oars and gaff all cleverly cut with the clumsiest of jackknives.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Arrow in a Sunbeam and Other Tales] Reference

"You can find rocks all round us," he said, "on which you could have pitched the killick, and they all go straight down like the side of house or like that there Mew Rock where the birds are.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Menhardoc] Reference

Luckily the QM returned not a moment too soon and the killick golly's attention was diverted to his kebab which seemed much more interesting than than the rifle so he placed it back down on the chair.    From Wordnik.com.  [Army Rumour Service] Reference

Kate and I cracked our clams on the gunwale of the boat, and cut them into nice little bits for bait with a piece of the shell, and by the time the captain had thrown out the killick we were ready to begin, and found the fishing much more exciting than it had been at the wharf.    From Wordnik.com.  [Deephaven and Selected Stories & Sketches] Reference

Arthur uttered a sigh of relief that was almost a sob, and sitting down very quietly he listened to the talking of his three companions, as the anchor and killick were got up, and the boat was rowed across the starry bay, to reach the landing-place about half an hour before the expected time, Mr Temple being in waiting, and pacing to and fro upon the pier.    From Wordnik.com.  [Menhardoc] Reference

A rugged mass of rock like that which they had just left; and with grapnel and killick at either end of the boat, they were anchored, as.    From Wordnik.com.  [Menhardoc] Reference

He began to haul the rope up again rapidly, fathom after fathom, till it began to come up wet; and soon after there was the end, which he took, and after looking round for a suitable piece he pounced upon a squarish piece of granite, which he secured to the rope by an ingenious hitch or two, such as are used by fishermen to make fast a killick -- the name they give to the stone they use for anchoring a lobster-pot, or the end of a fishing-line in the sea.    From Wordnik.com.  [Menhardoc] Reference

"Stone as big a killick, Master Aleck; that's what did that.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lost Middy Being the Secret of the Smugglers' Gap] Reference

You can't get down there without a killick or some other weight. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Devon Boys A Tale of the North Shore] Reference

Why, my cap come off and fell in the water, and I had to up with the killick and row after it. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Menhardoc] Reference

What! up killick an 'off a'ready?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864] Reference

"Over with the killick, then -- easy.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lost Middy Being the Secret of the Smugglers' Gap] Reference