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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..

Caulk :: Caulk (v. t. & n.) See Calk.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Frost :: Frost (v. t.) To roughen or sharpen, as the nail heads or calks of horseshoes, so as to fit them for frosty weather..

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

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

Oakum :: Oakum (n.) The material obtained by untwisting and picking into loose fiber old hemp ropes; -- used for calking the seams of ships, stopping leaks, etc..

Cawker :: Cawker (n.) See Calker.

Calk :: 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..

Flake :: Flake (n.) A small stage hung over a vessel's side, for workmen to stand on in calking, etc..

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

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

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