A "killack" in 1648?

Sat Jan 24 01:32:22 UTC 2009

I see a 1648 instance is not very interesting.

Thanks,
Joel

At 1/22/2009 10:01 PM, Douglas G. Wilson wrote:
>My poor-man's OED has "killick" with variants including "killock",
>"killagh", etc., meaning IIRC (my words) "stone used as an anchor" or
>"small anchor" or so.
>
>-- Doug Wilson
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