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Calk

planks of a ship boat etc to prevent leaking the calking is completed by smearing the seams with melted pitch

making seems tight as in ships or of furnishing with calks as a shoe or copying as a drawing

a calk on a shoe see calk n 1

one who calks

see 2d calk v t

see calk v

the point of a knife or a chinsing iron to calk slightly

and picking into loose fiber old hemp ropes used for calking the seams of ships stopping leaks etc

substance obtained by boiling down tar it is used in calking the seams of ships also in coating rope canvas wood

shod with shoes armed with points or calks as a roughshod horse

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