killicks

"Good job we'd no stone killicks aboard, Will," he said, "or down she'd have gone."

Menhardoc George Manville Fenn 1870

There were some whole oars and the sail of his boat and two or three killicks and painters, not to forget a heap of worn-out oars and sails in one corner and a sailor's hammock slung across the beam overhead, and there were some sailor's chests and the capstan of a ship and innumerable boxes which all seemed to be stuffed full, besides no end of things lying on the floor and packed away on shelves and hanging to rusty big-headed nails in the wall.

Deephaven and Selected Stories & Sketches Sarah Orne Jewett 1879