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caulk
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caulk also calk  (kôk)
v. caulked also calked, caulk·ing also calk·ing, caulks also calks
v.tr.
1. To make watertight or airtight by filling or sealing: caulk a pipe joint; caulked the cracks between the boards with mud.
2. Nautical To make (a boat) watertight by packing seams with a waterproof material, such as oakum or pitch.
v.intr.
To apply caulking: caulked all around the window frame.
n.
Caulking.
[Middle English cauken, to press, from Old North French cauquer, from Latin calcre, to tread, from calx, heel.]
caulker n.
caulk
Verb
to fill in (cracks) with paste or some other material [Latin calcare to trample]
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Noun1.caulk - a waterproof filler and sealant that is used in building and repair to make watertight
caulking
sealant, sealer - a kind of sealing material that is used to form a hard coating on a porous surface (as a coat of paint or varnish used to size a surface)
Verb1.caulk - seal with caulking; "caulk the window"
calk
seal, seal off - make tight; secure against leakage; "seal the windows"
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Douglass had personally experienced violence at the hands of white laborers, having been attacked by carpenter apprentices in a Baltimore shipyard and denied employment by the white caulkers of New Bedford, Massachusetts.
Slavery, labor reform, and intertextuality in antebellum print ... by Ostrowski, Carl / African American Review
Gomer makes plain that he took the initiative in trying to acquire the figure when he saw it in the girl's possession and that, when his initial attempts to purchase it were rebuffed, he went to unusual lengths to get around the owner's opposition, asking the "king" Richard Caulker to intervene and offering him a valuable object--his own revolver--and an Arabic Bible to use his good offices on his (Gomer's) behalf.
Trophies of Grace? The "art" collecting activities of United Brethren ... by Hart, William / African Arts
Palmer's Shipbuilding and Iron Company Limited, as a caulker, and he takes a very prominent part in the affairs of the Salem Baptist Church, and to all appearances is a very loyal subject.
"Having lived close beside them all the time:" (1) negotiating ... by Tabili, Laura / Journal of Social History
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