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| KECKLING | Old rope wound round cables, to keep them from chafing. (See ROUNDING.) |
| KEDGE | A small anchor, with an iron stock, used for warping.
To kedge, is to warp a vessel ahead by a kedge and hawser. |
| KEEL | The lowest and principal timber of a vessel, running fore-and-aft its whole length, and supporting the whole frame. It is composed of several pieces, placed lengthwise, and scarfed and bolted together. (See FASLE KEEL.) |
| KEEL-HAUL | To haul a man under a vessel's bottom, by ropes at the yard-arms on each side. Formerly practised as a punishment in ships of war. |
| KEELSON | A timber placed over the keel on the floor-timbers, and running parallel with it. |
| KENTLEDGE | Pig-iron ballast, laid each side of the keelson. |
| KEVEL or CAVIL | A strong piece of wood, bolted to some timber or stanchion, used for belaying large ropes to. |
| KEVEL-HEADS | Timber-heads, used as kevels. |
| KINK | A twist in a rope. |
| KNEES | Crooked pieces of timber, having two arms, used to connect the
beams of a vessel with her timbers. (See DAGGER.)
Lodging-knees, are placed horizontally, having one arm bolted to a beam, and the other across two of the timbers. Knee of the head, is placed forward of the stem, and supports the figure-head. |
| KNIGHT-HEADS or BOLLARD-TIMBERS | The timbers next the stem on each side, and continued high enough to form a support for the bowsprit. |
| KNITTLES or NETTLES | The halves of two adjoining yarns in a rope, twisted up together, for pointing or grafting. Also, small line used for seizings and for hammock-clews. |
| KNOCK-OFF! | An order to leave off work. |
| KNOT | A division on the log-line, answering to a mile of distance. |
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