| The defining feature of a killick is that you cannot not trip over it. |
| As the rank badge of a Royal Canadian Navy Leading Seaman was a single fouled anchor, the slang term killick has to come to represent the rank Leading Seaman. |
| Here, lay hold of the rope and make a hitch round that killick. |
| I seem to recall that one apprentice went ashore one Saturday afternoon with a killick he knew. |
| Think becos you've got a killick on yer arm yer can do wot yer likes, I suppose! |
| Mrs Brash had fired the train and killick was the explosion. |
