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Definition of Calking

Calking
Calk Calk (k[add]k), v. t. [imp. &p. p. Calked; p. pr. & vb. n. Calking.] [Either corrupted fr. F. calfater (cf. Pg. calafetar, Sp. calafetear), fr. Ar. qalafa to fill up crevices with the fibers of palm tree or moss; or fr. OE. cauken to tred, through the French fr. L. calcare, fr. calx heel. Cf. Calk to copy, Inculcate.] 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.
Calking
Calking Calk"ing, 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. Calking iron, a tool like a chisel, used in calking ships, tightening seams in ironwork, etc. Their left hand does the calking iron guide. --Dryden.

Meaning of Calking from wikipedia

- Calk may refer to: Caulkin, a blunt projection on a horseshoe Calk, Kentucky, a community in Montgomery County, Kentucky, United States Stephen Calk (born...
- Stephen Calk (b. 1964/1965) is the founder, former Chairman and CEO of The Federal Savings Bank, a federally chartered National Bank headquartered in Chicago...
- Wallace Calker (February 18, 1905 – February 20, 1964) was an American composer and arranger who worked on films and animated cartoons. Calker was born...
- Calker is a surname. Notable people with the name include: Arnold van Calker (born 1976), Dutch bobsledder Barend Christiaan van Calker (1738–1813), Dutch...
- Calk is an unincorporated community within Montgomery County, Kentucky, United States. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Calk...
- Caulk boots or calk boots (also called cork boots, timber boots, logger boots, logging boots, or corks) are a form of rugged footwear that are most often...
- Friedrich Calker (July 4, 1790 – January 5, 1870), German philosopher, was educated in Jena. For a short time, he was a lecturer in Berlin. In 1818, he...
- A caulkin (or caulk; US spelling "calkin" or "calk") from the Latin calx (the heel) is a blunt projection on a horseshoe or oxshoe that is often forged...
- The Diamond Calk Horseshoe Company of Duluth, Minnesota, USA was founded in 1908 by blacksmith Otto Swanstrom. Initially manufacturing horseshoes with...
- portal McLemore, David. "Saving an Endangered Species: Native Texan Buddy Calk wants "Howdy" to come back, y'all." [sic] The Dallas Morning News. January...
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