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keckles

keckles is the third-person singular simple present indicative of keckle.

Meaning of keckle

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

Questions about keckles

What is keckles the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Keckles is the third-person singular simple present indicative of keckle.

Words near keckles in the dictionary

  1. keckite
  2. keckle
  3. keckled
  4. Keckler
  5. Kecklers
  6. keckles
  7. keckling
  8. kecklings
  9. kecklish
  10. kecks
  11. keckses

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