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KATE . A picklock. 'Tis a rum kate; it is a clever picklock. CANT.
KEEL BULLIES . Men employed to load and unload the coal vessels.
KEELHAULING . A punishment in use among the Dutch seamen, in which, for certain offences, the delinquent is drawn once, or oftener, under the ship's keel: ludicrously defined, undergoing a great hard-ship.
KEEPING CULLY . One who keeps a mistress, as he supposes, for his own use, but really for that of the public.
KEFFEL . A horse. WELSH.
KELTER . Condition, order. Out of kelter; out of order.
KELTER . Money.
KEMP'S MORRIS . William Kemp, said to have been the original Dogberry in Much ado about Nothing, danced a morris from London to Norwich in nine days: of which he printed the account, A. D. 1600, intitled, Kemp's Nine Days Wonder, &c.
KEMP'S SHOES . Would I had Kemp's shoes to throw after you. BEN JONSON. Perhaps Kemp was a man remarkable for his good luck or fortune; throwing an old shoe, or shoes, after any one going on an important business, being by the vulgar deemed lucky.
KEN . A house. A bob ken, or a bowman ken; a well-furnished house, also a house that harbours thieves. Biting the ken; robbing the house. CANT.
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