| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. To trace.[Eve - graph theoretic] 2. Seldom used present participle conjugation of the verb calk.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (calk) | 1. Provide with calks; "calk horse shoes".[Wordnet]. 2. Seal with caulking.[Wordnet]. 3. Injure with a calk.[Wordnet]. 4. 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.[Websters]. 5. 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.[Websters]. 6. 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.[Websters]. 7. To furnish with calks, to prevent slipping on ice; as, to calk the shoes of a horse or an ox.[Websters]. 8. To wound with a calk; as when a horse injures a leg or a foot with a calk on one of the other feet.[Websters]. 9. Seldom used base verb from the following inflections: calking, calked, calks, calker, calkers, calkingly and calkedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Noun | 1. The act or process of making seems tight, as in ships, or of furnishing with calks, as a shoe, or copying, as a drawing.[Websters]. | |
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license. | Top | |
Date "CALKING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1828. (references) |
Specialty Definition: CALKING
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Food & Agriculture | 1: Burring or driving up the edges of iron or steel plates and sections along riveted seams to make them watertight. Source: European Union. (references) | 2: Forcing a quantity of calking material into the seams of the planks in a ship's decks or sides to make them watertight. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Publishing & Graphic Arts | Transferring of a drawing, etc. , from a tracing. Source: European Union. (references) | ||
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Common Expressions: CALKING
| Expressions | Definition | ||
| 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. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
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