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a fish off the hook by means of a wooden stick with a notch on the lower end, the so-called kavl-tree, to k. de fish. U. Sometimes also metaph. to take hold of one, to collar; “I’ll k. dee”. *kafla. See kavl-tree, sb., and cf. kevl¹, kevel, vb.

kavl², kavel [kavəl], vb., to wind the snell a few (two or three) times around the hook, when hauling in the long-line; to k. op de hooks. U. *kafla, prop. to coil up into a roll. No. kavla, vb. n., to coil itself up into a roll, kavle (R.).

kavl³, kavel [kavəl], vb., to perform work awkwardly, to bungle, to k. aboot onyting. Ai. No. kavla, vb., to dive into the work; to move the hands as if to disperse something, from kava, vb.

kavlin [kavlɩn, kāvlɩn] and kavli [kāvli], sb., on a fishing-line: a) the junction of the snell and the main line, the place where the snell, de tom, by winding, is joined to the main line; b) the winding about the sinker, the place where the sinker is fixed to the line (= de fatlin); c) the winding of the snell around the hooks, that part of the snell which is wound about the hooks, de kavlin o’ de tom. Uⁿ. In senses a and b the word is noted down in the forms “kāvlɩn” and “kāvli”, in sense c, with a short a: kăvlɩn (more directly to be classed with kavl², vb., which has a short a). Deriv. of *kafla, to roll or wind up; see kavl², vb.

kavlisben [kāv··lɩsben·] and kaflisben [kāf··lɩsben·], sb., bone of a halibut: the foremost interspinal bone of the anal fin, more strongly developed than the others. Uⁿ. The first part of the compd. is O.N. kafli, m., a cylinder, roller, stick, or a deriv. thereof; see kavl-tree, sb.

kavl-tree, kavel-tree [kav··əltri̇̄·],

kavlin-tree [kav··lɩntri̇̄·], sb., “palate-stick”, cylindrical piece of wood with a notch on the lower end which, in fishing, is put into the mouth of a fish to extract the hook, esp. when it has been swallowed too far down. Fairly common. From S.Sh. have been reported the forms “kavli-stick [kāv··lɩstɩk·]” (Conn.) and “kavlin-stick [kav··lɩnstɩk·]” (Du^{s, w.}). — O.N. kafli, m., cylinder; stick. No. kavle, m., cylinder; round stick; billet of wood (Aa.), and kavling, m., a short, round stick (R.). Sw. kafle and (dial.) kavel, m., a thick stick; a roller. The Shetl. forms kav(e)l, kavli, spring from *kafl and (O.N.) kafli; kavlin, most prob. from a *kaflingr, a parallel form (without mutation) to *keflingr; cf. ante, No. kavling. See “pattel-tree” and (the sea-terms) “gap-stick, gum-stick”.

käfs-, see kefs-.

keb [kēb (ᶄēb)], sb., thole, wooden pin, serving as a support for an oar in rowing. O.N. keipr, m., thole.

*kebb, sb., see kepp (kepper), sb.

*Keddhontla [ked·hȯ‘ᶇt··la], sb., the name for a kind of ogress, prob. belonging to a certain class of trolls. Fe. Prob. *kettu-hyndla, a being which is half cat, female cat (O.N. ketta), half bitch (O.N. hyndla). O.N. ketta, f., female cat, is also found used of an ogress, giantess. See ketthuntlin, sb., as a sea-term, tabu-name for cat.

keel [(kil) kɩl, ᶄɩl], sb., 1) the hollow of a horse’s back. 2) a stripe of another colour, esp. a black stripe, along the back of a horse, = il, “eel”, sb. N.I. (Fe.; Y.). Though the pronunciation does not quite assimilate to that of “keel” in sense of keel of a vessel [ki̇̄l, kil], it must be the same word in a sense handed down from Norn. Note No. kjøl (kyl), m., a) a keel; b) (long) mountain ridge; c) elevated line or edge;