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Webster 1913 Edition


Calking

Calkā€²ing

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Noun.
The act or process of making seems tight, as in ships, or of furnishing with calks, as a shoe, or copying, as a drawing.
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.

Webster 1828 Edition


Calking

CALKING

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Noun.
Cauking. In painting, the covering of the back side of a design with black lead, or red chalk, and tracing lines through on a waxed plate or wall or other matter, by passing lightly over each stroke of the design with a point, which leaves an impression of the color on the plate or wall.

Definition 2024


calking

calking

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Verb

calking

  1. present participle of calk

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