calking
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caulks, 3rd person singular present; calked, past tense; caulked, past tense; calking, present participle; calks, 3rd person singular present; calked, past participle; caulked, past participle; caulking, present participle;
/kôk/,
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caulks, 3rd person singular present; calked, past tense; caulked, past tense; calking, present participle; calks, 3rd person singular present; calked, past participle; caulked, past participle; caulking, present participle;
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Seal (a gap or seam) with such a substance
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Stop up (the seams of a boat) with oakum and waterproofing material, or by driving plate-junctions together; make (a boat) watertight by this method
Web Definitions:
- (calker) a variant spelling of caulker: a substance, as a puttylike sealant or oakum, used to stop up cracks in a boat. Silver calls his drink of cognac a calker, because he is using it to prepare for trouble from his crew, figuratively rough weather.
- (Calkers) Workmen skilled in stopping the seams of the deck or sides of vessels. The inhabitants of Gebel were employed in such work on Tyrian vessels (Eze 27:9, Eze 27:27; marg., "strengtheners" or "stoppers of chinks").
- (CALKERS) [Eze.27: 9, 27] Those who caulked the seams in ships. It was a job that required a lot of attention to detect and caulk leaks that began as the ship's timbers worked at sea.