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