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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..

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

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

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

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..

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

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

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.

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..

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. 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..

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

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..

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

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..

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

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..

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

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