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Pledget :: Pledget (n.) A string of oakum used in calking.

Cawker :: Cawker (n.) See Calker.

Keeler :: Keeler (n.) A small or shallow tub; esp., one used for holding materials for calking ships, or one used for washing dishes, etc..

Calker :: Calker (n.) One who calks.

Reem :: Reem (v. t.) To open (the seams of a vessel's planking) for the purpose of calking them.

Calking :: Calking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cal.

Chinse :: Chinse (v. t. & i.) To thrust oakum into (seams or chinks) with a chisel , the point of a knife, or a chinsing iron; to calk slightly..

Calque :: Calque (v. t.) See 2d Calk, v. t..

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

Calk :: Calk (n.) An instrument with sharp points, worn on the sole of a shoe or boot, to prevent slipping..

Calk :: Calk (v. t.) 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..

Meaking :: Meaking (n.) The process of picking out the oakum from the seams of a vessel which is to be recalked.

Calked :: Calked (imp. &p. p.) of Cal.

Calkin :: Calkin (n.) A calk on a shoe. See Calk, n., 1..

Cauker :: Cauker (n.) See Cawk, Calker..

Making-iron :: Making-iron (n.) A tool somewhat like a chisel with a groove in it, used by calkers of ships to finish the seams after the oakum has been driven in..

Calk :: Calk (v. t.) 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 :: Calk (v. i.) To wound with a calk; as when a horse injures a leg or a foot with a calk on one of the other feet.

Roughshod :: Roughshod (a.) Shod with shoes armed with points or calks; as, a roughshod horse..

Stave :: Stave (n.) To render impervious or solid by driving with a calking iron; as, to stave lead, or the joints of pipes into which lead has been run..

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