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keckle

keckle verb: to wind rope or chains around (a cable etc.) to protect its surface from friction, abrasion, or ice.

Verb

keckle (third-person singular simple present keckles, present participle keckling, simple past and past participle keckled)

  1. To wind rope or chains around (a cable etc.) to protect its surface from friction, abrasion, or ice.
    • Large vessels should have twelve or fourteen fathoms of service, half of it rounded and the rest plaited and keckled.1813, Seamanship, Both in Theory and Practice

Forms of keckle

third-person singular presentkeckles
present participlekeckling
past participlekeckled
pastkeckled

Words formed from keckle

Questions about keckle

What does keckle mean?
Keckle means to wind rope or chains around (a cable etc.) to protect its surface from friction, abrasion, or ice.
What part of speech is keckle?
Keckle is a verb.
What is the past tense of keckle?
The past tense of keckle is keckled.

Words near keckle in the dictionary

  1. kecked
  2. keckhanded
  3. kecking
  4. keckish
  5. keckite
  6. keckle
  7. keckled
  8. Keckler
  9. Kecklers
  10. keckles
  11. keckling

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