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verb

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.

Calk v. t. (Written also calque) 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.

Calk v. i.

To furnish with calks, to prevent slipping on ice; as, to calk the shoes of a horse or an ox.

To wound with a calk; as when a horse injures a leg or a foot with a calk on one of the other feet.

Same as caulk 2, v. t..

noun

Calk n.

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.

An instrument with sharp points, worn on the sole of a shoe or boot, to prevent slipping.

Same as caulk 2, n..

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Etymology of 'Calk'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Calk" Quotes from Famous Books

... through the hold of the ship, peering intently for light, or listening for the trickling of water, so should you, in observing your sister's character and family peculiarities, find and calk up all the treacherous leaks in your own nature. Her carelessness is your forgetfulness. Mend it. Her heedlessness is undoubtedly your recklessness. Send out scouts. Her impatience is possibly your high temper. Hit yourself when you are in rage, and thus learn its folly. ...

— The Golden Censer - The duties of to-day, the hopes of the future • John McGovern

... 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

... crosswise from A, M, E to C, O, G of your house for rafters, and across the larger logs lay a lot of small poles as close together as may be, running from the back to the front of the house. Fill in the cracks between with moss or calk them with dry grass; on them place a layer of brush, browse, or small sticks and over this a thick coating of clay, hard-pan, or ordinary mud and pack it down hard by tramping it with your feet until it becomes a smooth and tightly packed crust; over this you can put ...

— Shelters, Shacks and Shanties • D.C. Beard

... from the glacier on the white Shoulder of Thusis; whenever they calk it and plug it and stop it with tons of reinforced waterproof concrete—whenever on the surface of the world they dam it and turn it into new channels, it evades them. And in a new place its icy water bursts through—as though every stratum in the Alps dipped toward their ...

— In Secret • Robert W. Chambers

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