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calk

[ US /ˈkɔk/ ]
NOUN
  1. a metal cleat on the bottom front of a horseshoe to prevent slipping
VERB
  1. seal with caulking
    caulk the window
  2. injure with a calk
  3. provide with calks
    calk horse shoes

How To Use calk In A Sentence

  • There was that matter of the deck-calking, the bronze rudder-irons, the overhauling of the engine, the new spinnaker boom, the new davits, and the repairs to the whale-boat. Bunches of Knuckles
  • And these few days it was necessary to employ in planking and carefully calking the vessel, and launching her. The Mysterious Island
  • The carpenter was engaged constantly in attempting to locate such places, and, when he succeeded, in calking them tighter and tighter. THE SEED OF McCOY
  • An injury of the same character may also be sustained in various other ways -- treads from other animals when working in pairs, accidental wounding with the stable-fork, blows of any kind, or a self-inflicted tread with the calkin of an opposite foot -- each with the same result. Diseases of the Horse's Foot
  • Others were there, not of the church; Kibby Baker, the atheist, who had heard the news through the church window where he peeped at the worshipers; Miah White's brother, the ship-calker, summoned by his sister; a score of others, herding down the dark wind. The Best Short Stories of 1917 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story
  • She wanted, oh, how she _wanted_ Dirk to be brave and good like Mark Calkins -- her one type of manhood. Ester Ried Yet Speaking
  • Or, on the same branch, may be turned up a calkin of sufficient height for the purpose. Diseases of the Horse's Foot
  • That's Dr. Robert P. Ha in the photo above discussing a three-quarter-crown preparation with first-year student Renee Calkins.
  • The carpenter was engaged constantly in attempting to locate such places, and, when he succeeded, in calking them tighter and tighter. THE SEED OF McCOY
  • A year ago, as Calkins's divorce was finalized, they moved to a new home in Calvert County and began to talk of marriage. "I knew there was a good heart there"
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