A metal cleat on the bottom front of a horseshoe to prevent slipping.
1The carpenter's gang then set to work to calk the hole temporarily.
2The calk of the iron shoe was left sticking in the barn door.
3There was a gap in the horseshoe where the calk should have been.
4I'd be sure to calk a hoss or split a runner, or somethin'.
5But it's hard on a fellow; I calk'lated on taking you over with me.
6Go and calk your old leaky craft, Master Banks.
7If so, make them tight with batten strips or, if very loose, calk them with oakum.
8The more I calk up the sources, and the tighter I get, the more I leak wisdom.
9One shoe is plain; another has mud calk, and the third what is called a sticker, etc.
10There can be grouped in the class of infectious affections such conditions as nail pricks, calk wounds and canker.
11In some instances, the pastern joint is opened by calk wounds and then, of course, an infectious arthritis succeeds the injury.
12After learning how to calk, I sought my own employment, made my own contracts, and collected the money which I earned.
13I hed my own calk'lations on that p'int, an' went sparkin' two or three er the pootiest gals, all that winter.
14The shoeing consisted only of a toe protection-"Brodder "(Bruder ,Brother)-providedwitha small sharp calk, and fastened by two nails.
15We became very diligent in getting in our night wood, and in gathering more boughs to calk up the openings in the hut.
16And many hours more, day by day, he dragged himself around it, lying on his side to calk the gaping seams with moss.
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