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Calk   Listen
verb
Calk  v. i.  
1.
To furnish with calks, to prevent slipping on ice; as, to calk the shoes of a horse or an ox.
2.
To wound with a calk; as when a horse injures a leg or a foot with a calk on one of the other feet.
3.
Same as caulk 2, v. t..





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"Calk" Quotes from Famous Books



... Pacho, who was at their head, not to come back without bringing in first all the rice which he had harvested and cut, as aforesaid. I got a galley ready with a good deal of trouble, for there was not even bonote [5] to calk it, and I had to go in person among the houses of the Indians to find some. I launched it, and fitted it with guns and new rigging to make it ready; for I was resolved that if the enemy fled I should follow them even as far as their own country. When the men got ...
— The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 - Volume X, 1597-1599 • E. H. Blair


Words linked to "Calk" :   wound, cleat, supply, provide, render, furnish, injure, seal


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