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- Calking - p. pr. & vb. n. - of Calk
- Calking - n. - The act or process of making seems tight, as in ships, or of furnishing with calks, as a shoe, or copying, as a drawing.
- Oakum - n. - The material obtained by untwisting and picking into loose fiber old hemp ropes; -- used for calking the seams of ships, stopping leaks, etc.
- Calk - 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.
- Pitch - n. - A thick, black, lustrous, and sticky substance obtained by boiling down tar. It is used in calking the seams of ships; also in coating rope, canvas, wood, ironwork, etc., to preserve them.
- Keeler - n. - A small or shallow tub; esp., one used for holding materials for calking ships, or one used for washing dishes, etc.
- Reem - v. t. - To open (the seams of a vessel's planking) for the purpose of calking them.