Calked

Word CALKED
Character 6
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Definitions and meanings of "Calked"

What do we mean by calked?

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.

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The word "calked" in example sentences

"Must have slipped somewhere and 'calked' himself on the 'coronet,' I guess?" ❋ Ralph S. Kendall (N/A)

Good and I sure hope that people watch the video before they go off half calked and say things that are stupid. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Yet it was a tight deck to begin with, fresh-calked in Frisco. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Linderman, and my boat's just about got the last seam calked. ❋ Unknown (2010)

We stopped there so the farrier could make calked sandals with spikes for the horses to wear on the icy roads of the mountains. ❋ Sarah Micklem (2009)

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 (2006)

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. ❋ Unknown (2005)

The marks, known as "logger's smallpox," came from being kicked with calked boots during a fight. ❋ Unknown (2005)

He glanced at Knapp's feet and was not surprised to see calked boots, though they hardly went with the rest of the outfit. ❋ Unknown (2005)

The warmth was from the generous blaze kindled in the fireplace against our coming, and the smoke was from the crevices in a chimneypiece not sufficiently calked with newspapers to keep the smoke going up the flue. ❋ Unknown (2004)

The clop-clop of calked hooves sounded in the street behind them as a horse and carriage, empty of passengers, came alongside. ❋ Janet Dailey (1990)

We had come to a long, narrow, wooden, calked, semicircular tanklike container, about two feet wide and ten feet long, half buried in the dirt, its forward edge reached by a low ramp. ❋ Norman, John, 1931- (1986)

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