How To Use Calk In A Sentence
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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
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And these few days it was necessary to employ in planking and carefully calking the vessel, and launching her.
The Mysterious Island
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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
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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
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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
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She wanted, oh, how she _wanted_ Dirk to be brave and good like Mark Calkins -- her one type of manhood.
Ester Ried Yet Speaking
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Or, on the same branch, may be turned up a calkin of sufficient height for the purpose.
Diseases of the Horse's Foot
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That's Dr. Robert P. Ha in the photo above discussing a three-quarter-crown preparation with first-year student Renee Calkins.
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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
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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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Another common cause of contracted heels is to be found in faulty shoeing, such as rasping the wall, cutting away the frog, heels, and bars; high calks and the use of nails too near the heels.
Special Report on Diseases of the Horse
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Among the latter we may mention treads from other animals, and treads inflicted by the animal himself with the calkin of an opposite shoe, or the repeated injury occasioned by the shafts being carelessly allowed to drop on to the foot.
Diseases of the Horse's Foot
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Novice calkers will find that this makes these tools a lot easier to hit than the old Drews.
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calk horse shoes
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In the fort it was decided to leave about forty men "with a provision of bread and wine for more than a year, seed for planting, the long boat of the ship, a calker, a carpenter, a gunner, and many other persons who have earnestly desired to serve your Highnesses and oblige me by remaining here and searching for the gold mine.
Christopher Columbus
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That Wharfingers ihouldbe Uabto for plunderage of goods in the warehoufcs under their charge y (which is known to be very extenfiv. e at prefent;) and that fiich Wharfingers a»nd 'Warehoufe-men ffiould fee that all ffigar calks are flowed upon their bulge, and not upon their ends, as at prefent, to prevent drainage.
A Treatise on the Police of the Metropolis: Containing a Detail of the Various Crimes and ...
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When one school official underlined Ms. Calkins's point that teachers didn't need to assign book reports, the woman next to me expostulated, ‘That I don't agree with.’
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Most of the time I really and truely just calk it up to him being there, dealing with all the stress alone and those extremely long missions!
When Goodbye Feels More Like Good Riddance - SpouseBUZZ
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Was sent to Baltimore to learn the ship-calker's trade.
Frederick Douglass
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These may be inflicted when horses lie down upon sharp stumps of vegetation or shoe-calk injuries may be the means of introducing contagium, and an infectious inflammation results.
Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1
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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
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Among the former I behold the "catalpa," with its silvery bark and trumpet-shaped blossoms; the "Osage orange," with its dark shining leaves; and the red mulberry, with thick shady foliage, and long crimson calkin-like fruits.
The Quadroon Adventures in the Far West
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He waited with a new missile at the moment, the America one called Stinger, but all of the surface-to-air missiles in the group-indeed, throughout the whole area-were merely calk arrows now: tools for the Archer.
The Cardinal of the Kremlin
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Men worked frantically, early and late, at the height of their endurance, calking, nailing, and pitching in a frenzy of haste for which adequate explanation was not far to seek.
THE ONE THOUSAND DOZEN
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Linderman, and my boat's just about got the last seam calked.
THE ONE THOUSAND DOZEN
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'Sam Turk had nothing whatsoever to do with incident,' said Christian, decisively, and he calk for a second television and video recorder, equipment having arrived, he inserted into second machine the news tape of Digby's de from his hotel and his encounter with the rail lobby |
Gridlock
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Within one year, Douglass earns the wages of the most experienced calkers, at times bringing in nine dollars per week.
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It was imparted to me by a calker, who owned a woolly French poodle, which remarkable animal, he informed me, used to swim out regularly once a week, -- on
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 25, November, 1859
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Among the former I behold the "catalpa," with its silvery bark and trumpet-shaped blossoms; the "Osage orange," with its dark shining leaves; and the red mulberry, with thick shady foliage, and long crimson calkin-like fruits.
The Quadroon Adventures in the Far West
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The two scrub cows that came with the place I sold to the butcher for thirty dollars each, paying two hundred and fifty for two blue-blooded Jersey heifers ... and coined money on the exchange, while Calkins and the rest went right on with their scrubs that couldn't give enough milk to pay for their board.
CHAPTER III
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This suggests at once that a preventive is to be found in substituting a calkin that is low and square.
Diseases of the Horse's Foot
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And many hours more, day by day, he dragged himself around it, lying on his side to calk the gaping seams with moss.
Chapter VIII
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Must have slipped somewhere and 'calked' himself on the 'coronet,' I guess?
The Luck of the Mounted A Tale of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police
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Treads, too, especially with the calkin of the hind-shoe, are especially apt to end in this way.
Diseases of the Horse's Foot
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OK, quite the day. rushed to get some drawings done ... finished scanning them at 2: 30 pm, and had my first shower in days in my new painted, newly calked bathtub ... yay!
Wench77 Diary Entry
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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
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While before the law of the State he was the equal of any other man, caste prejudice prevented him from finding work at his trade of calker; and he therefore sought employment as a laborer.
Frederick Douglass
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Good and I sure hope that people watch the video before they go off half calked and say things that are stupid.
Obama's political arm release new health care video
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The colonists were driven to their last entrenchment, and although the upper seams of the vessel were not yet calked, they decided to launch her at once.
The Mysterious Island
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When due to calk wounds where horses are kicked, the injury is often on the side of the tarsus (medial or lateral) and such wounds not infrequently result in infectious arthritis.
Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1
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OJCIEC CHRZESTNY dzis! na pewno. aaa, tak, widzialam ten odcinek Kuby Wojewodzkiego z Mellerem. i stwierdzam, ze te dziewczeta byly slabe, Tatiana bardzo na plus, pan Meller calkiem dobrze, ale przy akcji boratowej z Kuba wymieklam: D: D dzis Majewski tez. heeeeej!
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Learning that my trade was that of a calker, he promptly decided that the best place for me was in New Bedford, Mass.
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial Issue
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More often than not it is met with in the feet of heavy draught animals, and is there caused by the calkin, either when being violently backed or suddenly turned round.
Diseases of the Horse's Foot
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Use a calking gun to fill up holes in your home to keep cockroaches from coming in, and keep moisture to a minimum.
CNN Transcript Mar 10, 2007
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These spring swages were carefully patterned after the shapes contained in an original Drew calking die I bought from the company many years ago.
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Morbific material is introduced into the region of the lateral cartilage by means of calk wounds and other penetrant injuries of the foot.
Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1
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Then it was decided to take part of the cargo out and calk her topsides.
Youth, by Joseph Conrad
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No, but if you left it stranded there in the wind and sun, green and sappy as it is now, ye'd have every seam and crack startin 'till the ribs shone through, and no amount of calkin' would make it watertight agin.
A Protegee of Jack Hamlin's and Other Stories
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Any calker worth his salt in time acquired a set of Drew irons, which he cherished like his children and polished by use until they gleamed like silver.
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Adjacent to the Mayan-dominant Yucatán state, Calkiní contained 34.9% of all the Maya speakers in Campeche in 2000.
Campeche: on the edge of the Maya world
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A little 'calk' all round won't hurt us after that tramp, Sergeant!" he observed kindly.
The Luck of the Mounted A Tale of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police
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For calking the seams they made oakum of dry seaweed, which was hammered in between the planks; then these seams were covered with boiling tar, which was obtained in great abundance from the pines in the forest.
The Mysterious Island
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Douglass's new friends advised him to go to New Bedford, Massachusetts, where whaling fleets were fitted out, and where he might hope to find work at his trade of ship-calker.
Frederick Douglass
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Twenty feet away a weary-faced sailor was calking the deck.
THE SEED OF McCOY
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A woolly kind of scurf, scraped off the leaf stalks, is used for calking boats, and the stem furnishes a small quantity of wood.
Catalogue of Economic Plants in the Collection of the U. S. Department of Agriculture
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If a calk wound has been inflicted, the adjoining surface structures are freed of hair and the parts cleansed in the usual manner, (which in wounds recently inflicted, should be done without employing quantities of water) and after painting the wound surface with tincture of iodin and saturating its depths with the same agent, the wound is cleansed, if it contains filth, by means of a small curette.
Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1
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The collector, emitter and gate conductive pillars are respectively connected to the external collector, emitter and gate electrodes with calking.
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Auld, Hugh, apprentices Douglass to a ship-calker, 51; sells Douglass his own time, 55; sells Douglass into freedom, 113.
Frederick Douglass
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Page 66 back to common labour, at which he could earn less than one-half of what he could have made as a calker.
Frederick Douglass
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They said to us, "Here's a brand new pool, better than the old one and ... oh yeah, here's a tube of calk - you want to climb up and fix that leaky roof??
Agents, reviews, rights -- and things
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Now people in the West calk a useless thing "a white elephant".
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We stopped there so the farrier could make calked sandals with spikes for the horses to wear on the icy roads of the mountains.
Wildfire
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This condition is commonly the result of a severe and jagged tread with the calkin, and takes the form of an ulcerous and excessively granulating wound.
Diseases of the Horse's Foot
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Hugh Auld easily succeeded in getting young Douglass apprenticed to a calker, in the extensive ship-yards of William Gardiner, on Fell's Point.
Frederick Douglass
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One of his uncles was a ship-broker of good standing, with a large connection among English ships; other relatives of his dealt in ships 'stores, owned sail-lofts, sold chains and anchors, were master-stevedores, calkers, shipwrights.
A Personal Record
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When occurring from the latter, it is seen more often than not in the hind-foot, being there caused by the calkin of the opposite foot.
Diseases of the Horse's Foot
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Yet it was a tight deck to begin with, fresh-calked in Frisco.
THE SEED OF McCOY
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They're like leaky boats -- calking, patching, pumping, night and day and all the time.
CHAPTER XI
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They calked the seams with the long moss which hung in profusion from the neighboring trees; the pines supplied them with pitch; the Indians made for them a kind of cordage; and for sails they sewed together their shirts and bedding.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 69, July, 1863
