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  • Never, it is said, had ships been reprovisioned and caulked, and remanned with greater speed for the over-ocean voyage. The Lost Continent
  • I look for caulked joints in the floor, cracks in the floor, and patching at the ceiling below. 2009 July 21 | Reuben's Home Inspection Blog
  • The decided _spat, spat, spat_ of the reversing blows from the caulked boots sounded like picket firing. Americans All Stories of American Life of To-Day
  • I cleaned rooms, laundered bedding, caulked around storm windows, shoveled snow, and rented rooms to travelers and lovers.
  • He caulked the chasms with philosophic oakum, he 'payed' them with dialectic pitch, he sheathed them with copper and brass by means of audacious dogmatism and insolent quibbles, until the enemy seemed to have been silenced, and the vessel righted so far as to float. Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 2
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  • Also, windows should be checked to see if they need to be re-caulked or weatherstripped. Undefined
  • The joints should be caulked to prevent leaks, and the hangers should be secure to the fascia.
  • So they fastened boards on either side of the banister and caulked and painted to fill in.
  • The obscure gray water is dotted with fishing boats, which brush the calm surface, each caulked with a paste of alchemical silvers.
  • In the P.M. we were obliged to righten the ship before night, by reason of her making water in her upper works faster than we could free; it made it necessary to have her weather works inside and out caulked, which before was thought unnecessary. Captain Cook's Journal during his first voyage round the world
  • The seams were caulked with tow, which I procured from untwisted ropes.
  • ‘We had seen impressions of these vertical wooden planks in Roman concrete, and wondered if the cracks between planks had to be caulked to prevent concrete leakage,’ he said.
  • The tunnels as above noted have been lined with concrete reinforced with steel rods, and prior to the placing of the concrete the joints were caulked, the bolts grummeted, and the tunnels rendered practically water-tight; the present quantity of water to be disposed of does not exceed 300 gal. per 24 hours in each tunnel 6,100 ft. long. Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, vol. LXVIII, Sept. 1910 The New York Tunnel Extension of the Pennsylvania Railroad, The North River Division. Paper No. 1151
  • This must be carefully and completely caulked to seal it against energy loss.
  • caulked," that is, split longitudinally and turned up and down. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"
  • In the bathroom: Shower doors should be caulked and sealed properly to prevent leaking.
  • Be sure there is a tightly caulked seal around the edge of the storm windows.
  • a slick for that purpose, a use to which our nails were afterwards applied with great advantage, and through these holes a kind of plaited cordage is passed, so as to hold the planks strongly together: The seams are caulked with dried rushes, and the whole outside of the vessel is paid with a gummy juice, which some of their trees produce in great plenty, and which is a very good succedaneum for pitch. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 12 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time
  • So they fastened boards on either side of the banister and caulked and painted to fill in.
  • To help prevent damage here, always make sure that the tub or shower is properly caulked at the floor. 2009 July | Reuben's Home Inspection Blog
  • Walk around the outside of your home or apartment, and slowly examine the windows, doors, siding, water faucets and any other through-the-wall openings. Any such cracks or openings should be caulked and sealed.
  • I own a property with vinyl siding that was never caulked around the windows. Do-it-yourselfer Q&A
  • She was then breamed, scraped, caulked, payed, sheathed and coppered in record time.
  • By the beginning of December Challenger was newly rigged, freshly caulked and painted, and fitted with a new deck house for the comfort of the Scientifics.
  • They also repaired, refitted, and caulked ships in the harbor, laboring for a $1.00 a day for their master.
  • By the beginning of December Challenger was newly rigged, freshly caulked and painted, and fitted with a new deck house for the comfort of the Scientifics.
  • The old bastard's caulked out again, thinks I, and hollered, without result, so I rolled, up, seized my crop, and strode forth to give him an enjoyable leathering. Flashman And The Mountain Of Light
  • They also repaired, refitted, and caulked ships in the harbor, laboring for a $1.00 a day for their master.

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