1. to retch or gag; to feel nausea or disgust
Usage: informal; chiefly British

1. plural of keckle; rope or cable wound around a ship's mast or spar for reinforcement
Usage: nautical; archaic

Examples

• The smell of the fish market made her keckles.
• He keckles at the sight of blood.
• The sailors wound keckles around the damaged mast to strengthen it.
• She keckles whenever she tries to swallow the bitter medicine.
• The old ship's keckles were still visible after decades at sea.