kelleg

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A form of killock — A small anchor.

Scrabble 11

Meanings

nounkelleg (plural kellegs)

plural kellegs

  1. alternativeAlternative form of killock.

    "Big stone instid of an anchor. You kin see a kelleg ridin' in the bows fur's you can see a dory, an' all the fleet knows what it means. They'd guy him dreadful. […]"

    1897, Rudyard Kipling, Captains Courageous
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