CALK
\kˈalk], \kˈalk], \k_ˈa_l_k]\
Definitions of CALK
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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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.
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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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To copy, as a drawing, by rubbing the back of it with red or black chalk, and then passing a blunt style or needle over the lines, so as to leave a tracing on the paper or other thing against which it is laid or held.
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To furnish with calks, to prevent slipping on ice; as, to calk the shoes of a horse or an ox.
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To wound with a calk; as when a horse injures a leg or a foot with a calk on one of the other feet.
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A sharp-pointed piece of iron or steel projecting downward on the shoe of a horse or an ox, to prevent the animal from slipping; - called also calker, calkin.
By Oddity Software
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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.
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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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To copy, as a drawing, by rubbing the back of it with red or black chalk, and then passing a blunt style or needle over the lines, so as to leave a tracing on the paper or other thing against which it is laid or held.
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To furnish with calks, to prevent slipping on ice; as, to calk the shoes of a horse or an ox.
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To wound with a calk; as when a horse injures a leg or a foot with a calk on one of the other feet.
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A sharp-pointed piece of iron or steel projecting downward on the shoe of a horse or an ox, to prevent the animal from slipping; - called also calker, calkin.
By Noah Webster.
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To drive oakum or hemp rope fiber into the seams of to keep out water; to furnish with metal projections to prevent slipping.
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A piece of metal projecting from the shoe of a horse or an ox to prevent slipping. Also, caulk.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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To stuff oakum into the seams of a ship to make it water-tight: to roughen a horse's shoe to keep it from slipping.
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CALKER.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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