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Meanings of calk in inglés

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enmasillar

Seal with caulking.

        enmasillar

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

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              Examples for "calkin"
              Examples for "calkin"
              1
              Or, on the same branch, may be turned up a calkin of sufficient height for the purpose.
              Diseases of the Horse's Foot
              2
              This suggests at once that a preventive is to be found in substituting a calkin that is low and square.
              Diseases of the Horse's Foot
              3
              The Calkin's soap ware was packed away on the top shelf of the pantry.
              The Shoulders of Atlas: A Novel
              4
              Jim Jones has got a beautiful one she bought selling Calkin's soap, she said.
              The Shoulders of Atlas: A Novel
              5
              Sylvia meditated selling enough Calkin's soap to buy a new one, and stow that away in Mr. Allen's room.
              The Shoulders of Atlas: A Novel
              Usage of calk in inglés
              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