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Calk v. t. (past & past part. calked; pres. part. calking)

To drive tarred oakum into the seams between the planks of (a ship, boat, etc.), to prevent leaking. The calking is completed by smearing the seams with melted pitch.

To make an indentation in the edge of a metal plate, as along a seam in a steam boiler or an iron ship, to force the edge of the upper plate hard against the lower and so fill the crevice.

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Etymology of 'Calk'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Calk" Quotes from Famous Books

... almost too dark to catch the slight discolorations where pebbles had been disturbed on a flat surface or the calk of a horseshoe had slipped on the uneven face of a ledge, and he had halted under an uplift to wait for Wickwire on the distant left to advance, when, half a mile below him, a horseman crossing the river rode slowly past a gap in the rocks and disappeared ...

— Whispering Smith • Frank H. Spearman

... CORK, CALK. In some of the Southern colleges, this word, with a derived meaning, signifies a complete stopper. Used in the sense of an entire failure in reciting; an utter inability to ...

— A Collection of College Words and Customs • Benjamin Homer Hall

Words linked to "Calk" : seal off, cleat, calkin, render, injure, furnish, seal, animal husbandry, provide