Large hooks for catching salmon in the daytime.
·noun & ·v ·see <<Click>>. ...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
to klick up, to catch up. Line. ...
A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
Were used for catching fish (Amos 4:2; comp. Isa. 37:29; Jer. 16:16; Ezek. 29:4; Job. 41:1, 2; Matt....
Easton's Bible Dictionary
Thick pieces of timber, incurvated into the form of knees, and used to strengthen the fore-part of a...
The Sailor's Word-Book
They are used to sling a cask by the chimes, or ends of its staves, and are formed by reeving the tw...
Iron hooks fixed on the cheeks of a gun-carriage for dragging the gun along by draught-ropes. ...
Synonymous with futtocks. ...
The same as breast-hooks (which see). ...
A kind of sickle formerly applied to the yard-arms, for cutting the rigging of a vessel running on b...