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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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A sharp-pointed piece of iron or steel projecting downward on
the shoe of a horse or an ox, to prevent the animal from slipping; --
called also calker, calkin. |
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An instrument with sharp points, worn on the sole of a shoe
or boot, to prevent slipping. |
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To furnish with calks, to prevent slipping on ice; as, to
calk the shoes of a horse or an ox. |
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To wound with a calk; as when a horse injures a leg or a
foot with a calk on one of the other feet. |
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