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