| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. Of Keckle.[Websters]
2. To have chuckled, cackled, sniggered or clucked.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Past Tense | 1. Seldom used past tense conjugation of the verb keckle.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (keckle) | 1. To wind old rope around, as a cable, to preserve its surface from being fretted, or to wind iron chains around, to defend from the friction of a rocky bottom, or from the ice.[Websters]. 2. See Keck, v. i. & n.[Websters]. 3. Seldom used base verb from the following inflections: keckling, keckled, keckles, keckler, kecklers, kecklingly and keckledly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license. | Top | |
Date "KECKLED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1914. (references) |
Specialty Definition: keckle
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | [Verb] To wind old rope round a cable to preserve its surface from being fretted, or to wind iron chains round a cable to defend it from the friction of a rocky bottom, or from the ice. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | Top | ||
