A metal cleat on the bottom front of a horseshoe to prevent slipping.
1 Or, on the same branch, may be turned up a calkin of sufficient height for the purpose.
2 This suggests at once that a preventive is to be found in substituting a calkin that is low and square.
3 The Calkin 's soap ware was packed away on the top shelf of the pantry.
4 Jim Jones has got a beautiful one she bought selling Calkin 's soap, she said.
5 Sylvia meditated selling enough Calkin 's soap to buy a new one, and stow that away in Mr. Allen's room.
6 Mrs. Jim Jones had a mirror which she had earned by selling Calkin 's soap, which Sylvia considered much handsomer.
7 The horse was a big animal, and freshly shod with heavy shoes, on which a toe-piece and calkins were used.
8 There is no doubt that they are most common in animals shod with heavy shoes and with high and sharp calkins .
9 You are essentially sending out a beacon as to your whereabouts, said Brian Calkin , vice president of operations at the Center for Internet Security.
10 For that reason a shoe with calkins or with very high heels should be removed, and a shoe with an ordinary flat web substituted.
11 This, to a very great extent, may be remedied by the use of a shoe with calkins and an extended toe-piece (see Fig.
12 By means of an elongated toe-piece to the shoe and calkins , which were shortened every fifteen days, the filly was completely cured in seventy days.'
13 Promptly on Thursday, at the time appointed, the orderly rode over to Camp Walton to escort the party back to the camp at Calkin 's Cliff.
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