K
KAICLING or KECLING to KELSON
KETCH to KNOT
KETCH
KEVELS
KEY
KEYS
KINK
KNEE
KNEE of the head
KINGHT-HEAD or BOLLARD-TIMBER
KNIGHT-HEADS
KNITTLE
KNOT
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KEY
KEY, (quai, Fr.) a long wharf, usually built of stone, by the side of a harbour or river, and having several store-houses for the convenience of lading and discharging merchant-ships. It is accordingly furnished with posts and rings, whereby they are secured; together with cranes, capsterns, and other engines, to lift the goods into, or out of, the vessels which lie along-side.
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© Derived from Thomas Cadell's new corrected edition, London: 1780, page 166, 2003
Prepared by Paul Turnbull
http://southseas.nla.gov.au/refs/falc/0765.html