or junk.

KING'S PARADE. A name given to the quarter-deck of a man-of-war, which
is customarily saluted by touching the hat when stepping on it.

KINK. An accidental curling, twist, or doubling turn in a cable or rope,
occasioned by its being very stiff, or close laid, or by being drawn too
hastily out of the coil or tier in which it was coiled. (_See_
COILING.)--_To kink._ To twist.

KINKLINGS. A coast name for periwinkles.

KINN. From the Gaelic word for head; meaning, in local names, a hill or
promontory.

KINTLE. A dozen of anything. Remotely corrupted from _quintal_.

KINTLIDGE. A term for iron-ballast. (_See_ KENTLEDGE.)

KIOCK, OR BLUE-BACK. An alosa fish, used by the American and other
fishermen as a bait for mackerel.

KIOSK. A pavilion on the poop of some Turkish vessels.

KIPLIN. The more perishable parts of the cod-fish, cured separately from
the body.

KIPPAGE. An old term for equipage, or ship's company.

KIPPER. Salmon in the act of spawning; also, the male fish, and
especially beaked fish. Kipper is also applied to salmon which has
undergone the process of _kippering_ (which see).

KIPPERING. A method of curing fish in which salt is little used, but
mainly sugar, pepper, and drying in the sun, and occasionally some
smoke. Salmon thus treated is considered a dainty, though the cure is
far less lasting than with salt.

KIPPER-TIME. The time during which the statutes prohibit the taking of
salmon.

KISMISSES. The raisins issued in India, resembling the sultanas of the
Levant. The word is derived from the Turkish. They seldom have seeds.

KIST. A word still in use in the north for chest.

KIT. A small wooden pail or bucket, wherewith boats are baled out;
generally with an ear. (_See_ KID.) Also, a contemptuous term for total;
as, the whole kit of them.

KITT, OR KIT. An officer's outfit. Also, a term among soldiers and
marines to express the complement of regimental necessaries, which they
are obliged to keep in repair. Also, a seaman's _wardrobe_.

KITTIWAKE. A species of gull of the northern seas; so called from its
peculiar cry: the _Larus tridactylus_.

KITTY-WITCH. A small kind of crab on the east coast.

KLEG. The fish _Gadus barbatus_.

KLEPTES. The pirates of the Archipelago; literally the Greek for
robbers.

KLICK-HOOKS. Large hooks for catching salmon in the daytime.

KLINKER. A flat-bottomed lighter or praam of Sweden and Denmark.

KLINKETS. Small grating-gates, made