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calkin

[ US /ˈkæɫkɪn/ ]
NOUN
  1. a metal cleat on the bottom front of a horseshoe to prevent slipping

How To Use calkin 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Treads, too, especially with the calkin of the hind-shoe, are especially apt to end in this way. Diseases of the Horse's Foot
  • 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"
  • 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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