var. CULLIS sb.2, a groove or gutter; spec. in a cross-bow, or in a roof. Hence Killes(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.
