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Meanings of calk in English

Catalan
calafatejar
Spanish
enmasillar

Seal with caulking.

calafatejar

A metal cleat on the bottom front of a horseshoe to prevent slipping.

Usage of calk in English
1
The carpenter's gang then set to work to calk the hole temporarily.
The Boy Aviators' Polar Dash; or, Facing Death in the Antarctic
2
The calk of the iron shoe was left sticking in the barn door.
Old Rail Fence Corners: The A. B. C's. of Minnesota History
3
There was a gap in the horseshoe where the calk should have been.
Paths of Glory: Impressions of War Written at and Near the Front
4
I'd be sure to calk a hoss or split a runner, or somethin'.
Good Cheer Stories Every Child Should Know
5
But it's hard on a fellow; I calk'lated on taking you over with me.
The Baronet's Bride; Or, A Woman's Vengeance
6
Go and calk your old leaky craft, Master Banks.
Erema; Or, My Father's Sin
7
If so, make them tight with batten strips or, if very loose, calk them with oakum.
If You're Going to Live in the Country
8
The more I calk up the sources, and the tighter I get, the more I leak wisdom.
Roughing It
9
One shoe is plain; another has mud calk, and the third what is called a sticker, etc.
The new yorker
10
There can be grouped in the class of infectious affections such conditions as nail pricks, calk wounds and canker.
Lameness of the Horse / Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1
11
In some instances, the pastern joint is opened by calk wounds and then, of course, an infectious arthritis succeeds the injury.
Lameness of the Horse / Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1
12
After learning how to calk, I sought my own employment, made my own contracts, and collected the money which I earned.
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
13
I hed my own calk'lations on that p'int, an' went sparkin' two or three er the pootiest gals, all that winter.
Kitty's Class Day and Other Stories
14
The shoeing consisted only of a toe protection-"Brodder "(Bruder ,Brother)-providedwitha small sharp calk, and fastened by two nails.
Scientific American Supplement No. 819, September 12, 1891
15
We became very diligent in getting in our night wood, and in gathering more boughs to calk up the openings in the hut.
In the Catskills: Selections from the Writings of John Burroughs
16
And many hours more, day by day, he dragged himself around it, lying on his side to calk the gaping seams with moss.
Burning Daylight
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Calk through the time