Difference between revisions of "Calk"
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==References == | <p> '''(1):''' (v. t.) To drive tarred oakum into the seams between the planks of (a ship, boat, etc.), to prevent leaking. The calking is completed by smearing the seams with melted pitch. </p> <p> '''(2):''' (v. i.) To furnish with calks, to prevent slipping on ice; as, to calk the shoes of a horse or an ox. </p> <p> '''(3):''' (v. t.) To copy, as a drawing, by rubbing the back of it with red or black chalk, and then passing a blunt style or needle over the lines, so as to leave a tracing on the paper or other thing against which it is laid or held. </p> <p> '''(4):''' (v. i.) To wound with a calk; as when a horse injures a leg or a foot with a calk on one of the other feet. </p> <p> '''(5):''' (n.) [[A]] sharp-pointed piece of iron or steel projecting downward on the shoe of a horse or an ox, to prevent the animal from slipping; - called also calker, calkin. </p> <p> '''(6):''' (n.) An instrument with sharp points, worn on the sole of a shoe or boot, to prevent slipping. </p> <p> '''(7):''' (v. t.) To make an indentation in the edge of a metal plate, as along a seam in a steam boiler or an iron ship, to force the edge of the upper plate hard against the lower and so fill the crevice. </p> | ||
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Latest revision as of 01:36, 13 October 2021
Calk [1]
(1): (v. t.) To drive tarred oakum into the seams between the planks of (a ship, boat, etc.), to prevent leaking. The calking is completed by smearing the seams with melted pitch.
(2): (v. i.) To furnish with calks, to prevent slipping on ice; as, to calk the shoes of a horse or an ox.
(3): (v. t.) To copy, as a drawing, by rubbing the back of it with red or black chalk, and then passing a blunt style or needle over the lines, so as to leave a tracing on the paper or other thing against which it is laid or held.
(4): (v. i.) To wound with a calk; as when a horse injures a leg or a foot with a calk on one of the other feet.
(5): (n.) A sharp-pointed piece of iron or steel projecting downward on the shoe of a horse or an ox, to prevent the animal from slipping; - called also calker, calkin.
(6): (n.) An instrument with sharp points, worn on the sole of a shoe or boot, to prevent slipping.
(7): (v. t.) To make an indentation in the edge of a metal plate, as along a seam in a steam boiler or an iron ship, to force the edge of the upper plate hard against the lower and so fill the crevice.
