Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Keckle

Keckle , intransitive verb and noun

See Keck, v. i. & n.

Keckle , transitive verb

(Nautical) To wind old rope around, as a cable, to preserve its surface from being fretted, or to wind iron chains around, to defend from the friction of a rocky bottom, or from the ice. — Totten