The Collaborative International Dictionary
Killock \Kil"lock\, n. [Cf. Scot. killick ``the flue [fluke] of
an anchor.''
--Jamieson.]
A small anchor; also, a kind of anchor formed by a stone
inclosed by pieces of wood fastened together. [Written also
killick.]
Wiktionary
n. A small anchor.
Wikipedia
Killick (first name and dates unknown) was an English cricketer who played for Dartford and Kent during the 1750s and 1760s.
Killick (formerly the Admiral Killick Haitian Navy base;'' also called Point Killick'') is the Haitian Coast Guard base in Port-au-Prince. It is the main base for the Coast Guard. It is the other port for the city, aside from the main Port international de Port-au-Prince. It is located about 10 miles outside of downtown Port-au-Prince, and is about a century old. The base is named after Admiral Hammerton Killick of the Haitian Navy, who scuttled his own ship, the Crête-à-Pierrot, a 940-ton screw gunship, by igniting the magazine, and went down with the ship, instead of surrendering to German forces, in 1902, at Gonaïves, Haiti.
Killick may refer to:
- Killick or Admiral Killick, a coast guard and navy base of Haiti
- Killick hitch, a type of hitch knot
- Killick, a slang term for Leading Seaman
- The Killick: A Newfoundland Story, by Geoff Butler, a GG-nominated piece of literature, see 1995 Governor General's Awards
- A type of small anchor
- Killick (name)
- Hammerton Killick, an admiral in the Haitian Navy
Usage examples of "killick".
Killick looked at Sharpe, the movement of his head spilling water from the peaks of his bicorne hat.
Killick and Ramed vanished from the screen in a startled dissolve of sparkles.
Killick, Ramed, and all the others were looking at him, and instead he simply shrugged graciously.
Calhoun entered, Killick and Ramed on either side of him, Zak Kebron directly behind him.
Killick, tell my cook to lay on as decent a dinner as the barky can provide: Ringle will be coming aboard.
I only came aft to say Killick has a pot on the hob and a dish of burgoo, and should you like it on deck or below?
Killick removed the deadlights from the stern window, admitting a grey morning and peering in himself with an inquisitive expression on his ratlike face.
He had hoped to invite Jack and Stephen too, but his servant, sounding Killick first, had learnt that the Captain and the Doctor were engaged to eat a young wild boar, roasted according to the Madeiran fashion, in the hills.
Lassan wondered what had happened to Killick, but that speculation was as useless as wondering how the Teste de Buch had fallen.
Bampfylde was not sure he believed Killicks story that the Thuella was stranded, stripped, and useless, but tomorrow the brigs could search the Bassin dArcachon and make certain.
If the two brigs covered Killicks land-battery with gunfire, then the Marines could go in with powder barrels, pitch-blende, and Chinese lights to torch the Thuella down to charred ribs.
Even Killick, the most inquisitive man aboard, had no sure, clearly-dated knowledge, and to Jack's astonishment he was not even aware that Dutourd had been refused leave to go to Callao in the Surprise with his former shipmates -did not even know that he had asked for permission.
Frederickson and Killick joined Sharpe, then the general demanded a translation that Favier provided.
When Killick had withdrawn his tongue, a flannelly object of inordinate length, he said, paler still, "Is there a ghost in the bread-room, sir?
Such a floating battery, Killick saw, would be a guarantee of victory to demoralized men.