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Calk [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Cauk. In New-England, a sharp pointed piece of iron on a shoe for a horse or an ox, called in Great Britain calking; used to prevent the animal from slipping.

Calk [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. cauk.

2. To drive oakum or old ropes untwised, into the seams of a ship or other vessel, to prevent their leaking, or admitting water. After the seams are filled, they are covered with hot melted pitch or rosin, to keep the oakum from rotting.

3. In some parts of America, to set upon a horse or ox shoes armed with sharp points of iron, to prevent their slipping on ice; that is, to stop from slipping.

Calk [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. 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.

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

Calk [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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.

Calk [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. 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.

2. 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.

3. 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.

Calked [Participle passive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Cauked. Having the seams stopped; furnished with shoes with iron points.

Calked [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Calker [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Cauker. A man who calks; sometimes perhaps a calk or pointed iron on a house-shoe.

Calker [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. One who calks.

2. A calk on a shoe. See Calk, n., 1.

Calkin [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A calk.

Calkin [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A calk on a shoe. See Calk, n., 1.

Calking [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Cauking. In painting, the covering of the back side of a design with black lead, or red chalk, and tracing lines through on a waxed plate or wall or other matter, by passing lightly over each stroke of the design with a point, which leaves an impression of the color on the plate or wall.

Calking [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The act or process of making seems tight, as in ships, or of furnishing with calks, as a shoe, or copying, as a drawing.

Calking [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Calking-iron [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Cauking-iron. An instrument like a chisel, used in calking ships.