ˈkillesse, -ese
var. cullis n.2, a groove or gutter; spec. in a cross-bow, or in a roof. Hence ˈkilles(s)ed a., having a killesse.
| 1649 in Nichols Progr. II. 418 One barn of four bayes of building well tyled and killesed on two sides and one end thereof. 1867 Smyth Sailor's Word-bk., Killese, the groove in a cross-bow. |