calk

How To Use calk In A Sentence

• We stopped there so the farrier could make calked sandals with spikes for the horses to wear on the icy roads of the mountains. Wildfire
• For calking the seams they made oakum of dry seaweed, which was hammered in between the planks; then these seams were covered with boiling tar, which was obtained in great abundance from the pines in the forest. The Mysterious Island
• A little 'calk' all round won't hurt us after that tramp, Sergeant!" he observed kindly. The Luck of the Mounted A Tale of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police
• Adjacent to the Mayan-dominant Yucatán state, Calkiní contained 34.9% of all the Maya speakers in Campeche in 2000. Campeche: on the edge of the Maya world
• Any calker worth his salt in time acquired a set of Drew irons, which he cherished like his children and polished by use until they gleamed like silver.
• No, but if you left it stranded there in the wind and sun, green and sappy as it is now, ye'd have every seam and crack startin 'till the ribs shone through, and no amount of calkin' would make it watertight agin. A Protegee of Jack Hamlin's and Other Stories
• Then it was decided to take part of the cargo out and calk her topsides. Youth, by Joseph Conrad
• Morbific material is introduced into the region of the lateral cartilage by means of calk wounds and other penetrant injuries of the foot. Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1
• There was that matter of the deck-calking, the bronze rudder-irons, the overhauling of the engine, the new spinnaker boom, the new davits, and the repairs to the whale-boat. Bunches of Knuckles
• Use a calking gun to fill up holes in your home to keep cockroaches from coming in, and keep moisture to a minimum. CNN Transcript Mar 10, 2007