Calking - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: calkingCalk
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...
Calking
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
A calk on a shoe See Calk n 1...
Calker
One who calks...
Calque
See 2d Calk v t...
Caulk
See Calk v...
Chinse
To thrust oakum into seams or chinks with a chisel the point of a knife or a chinsing iron to calk slightly...
Oakum
The material obtained by untwisting and picking into loose fiber old hemp ropes used for calking the seams of ships stopping leaks etc...
Pitch
A thick black lustrous and sticky substance obtained by boiling down tar It is used in calking the seams of ships also in coating rope canvas wood ironwork etc to preserve them...
Roughshod
Shod with shoes armed with points or calks as a roughshod horse...
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