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404 a fish off the hook by means of a wooden stick with a notch on the lower end, the so-called -tree, to k. de fish. Sometimes also to take hold of one, to collar; “I’ll k. dee”. *kafla. See -tree,, and $1$, ,

kavl$2$, kavel [kavəl],, to wind the snell a few (two or three) times around the hook, when hauling in the long-line; to k. de hooks. *kafla, to coil up into a roll. kavla, , to coil itself up into a roll, kavle (R.).

kavl$3$, kavel [kavəl],, to perform work awkwardly, to bungle, to k. aboot onyting. kavla, , to dive into the work; to move the hands as if to disperse something, from ,

kavlin [kavlɩn, kāvlɩn] and kavli [kāvli],, on a fishing-line: a) the junction of the snell and the main line, the place where the snell, , 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 ); c) the winding of the snell around the hooks, that part of the snell which is wound about the hooks, de o’ de tom. 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 $n$, , which has a short a). of *kafla, to roll or wind up; see $2$,

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

kavl-tree, kavel-tree [kav··əltri̇̄·], kavlin-tree [kav··lɩntri̇̄·],, “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, when it has been swallowed too far down. Fairly common. From have been reported the forms “-stick [kāv··lɩstɩk·]” and “-stick [kav··lɩnstɩk·]”. — kafli,, cylinder; stick. kavle, , cylinder; round stick; billet of wood (Aa.), and kavling,, a short, round stick (R.). kafle and kavel,, a thick stick; a roller. The forms , , spring from *kafl and kafli;, most from a mutation) to *keflingr;  ante, kavling. See “-tree” and (the sea-terms) “-stick, -stick”.
 * kaflingr, a parallel form (without

käfs-, see -.

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


 * kebb,, see ,

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

keel [(kil) kɩl, ᶄɩl],, 1) the hollow of a horse’s back. 2) a stripe of another colour, a black stripe, along the back of a horse, = , “eel”,. 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 kjøl (kyl),, a) a keel; b) (long) mountain ridge; c) elevated line or edge;