click-nick

Updated: August 24, 2026

Down below, the rasping sound of rough salt rubbed on rough flesh sounded like the whirring of a grindstone steady undertune to the "click-nick" of knives in the pen; the wrench and shloop of torn heads, dropped liver, and flying offal; the "caraaah" of Uncle Salters's knife scooping away backbones; and the flap of wet, open bodies falling into the tub.

Rudyard Kipling - Captains Courageous