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Calk v. i.

To furnish with calks, to prevent slipping on ice; as, to calk the shoes of a horse or an ox.

To wound with a calk; as when a horse injures a leg or a foot with a calk on one of the other feet.

Same as caulk 2, v. t..

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"Calk" Quotes from Famous Books

... purpose of patriotism, ought to put over quite a show. As commoonities we're no longer in the swaddlin' clothes of infancy. It's time, too, that we goes on record as a whole public in some manner an' form best calk'lated to make a somnolent East ...

— Faro Nell and Her Friends - Wolfville Stories • Alfred Henry Lewis

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... glad to see us. A hungry crowd of shipwrights sharpened their chisels at the sight of that carcass of a ship. And, by Jove! they had pretty pickings off us before they were done. I fancy the owner was already in a tight place. There were delays. Then it was decided to take part of the cargo out and calk her topsides. This was done, the repairs finished, cargo re-shipped; a new crew came on board, and we went out—for Bankok. At the end of a week we were back again. The crew said they weren't going to Bankok—a hundred and fifty days' passage—in a something hooker ...

— Youth • Joseph Conrad

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Words linked to "Calk" : wound, supply, render, seal off, injure, animal husbandry, calkin, cleat