[
US
/ˈkɔk/
]
NOUN
- a metal cleat on the bottom front of a horseshoe to prevent slipping
VERB
-
seal with caulking
caulk the window - injure with a calk
-
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"