"Calker" is a word in ENGLISH
A calk on a shoe. See Calk, n., 1.
One who calks.
I think I realized intellectually at that point, watching the city slowly give way to the last vestiges of parkland and then the black spruce forests of the North, that I could come back to the land deeply fearful, or I could choose to see it as a place of healing. Pain colours us; we carry it behind our eyes for a long time after it’s passed. At some point, we have to decide whether we’re willing to let it take over our lives and change them permanently, or whether we’re going to wrench ourselves open again to the world. I couldn’t make that choice in the city.
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To wound with a calk; as when a horse injures a leg or a foot with a calk on one …
Read the complete definitionTo drive tarred oakum into the seams between the planks of (a ship, boat, etc.), to prevent leaking. The calking …
Read the complete definitionAn instrument with sharp points, worn on the sole of a shoe or boot, to prevent slipping.
Read the complete definitionTo copy, as a drawing, by rubbing the back of it with red or black chalk, and then passing a …
Read the complete definitionTo furnish with calks, to prevent slipping on ice; as, to calk the shoes of a horse or an ox.
Read the complete definitionA sharp-pointed piece of iron or steel projecting downward on the shoe of a horse or an ox, to prevent …
Read the complete definitionTo make an indentation in the edge of a metal plate, as along a seam in a steam boiler or …
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Read the complete definitionA calk on a shoe. See Calk, n., 1.
Read the complete definitionThe act or process of making seems tight, as in ships, or of furnishing with calks, as a shoe, or …
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Read the complete definitionSee 2d Calk, v. t.
Read the complete definitionSee Calk.
Read the complete definitionTo thrust oakum into (seams or chinks) with a chisel , the point of a knife, or a chinsing iron; …
Read the complete definitiondútdut - To plaster, seal, calk, caulk, plug, cement, stuff up cracks, stop chinks or cracks with paper, cloth, thick …
Read the complete definitionA small stage hung over a vessel's side, for workmen to stand on in calking, etc.
Read the complete definitionTo roughen or sharpen, as the nail heads or calks of horseshoes, so as to fit them for frosty weather.
Read the complete definitionkalapáti (not without l) v {1} [A; b5] calk, make s.t. water-tight by filling the seams or cracks. Gikalapatíhan (gikalapáti) …
Read the complete definitionA small or shallow tub; esp., one used for holding materials for calking ships, or one used for washing dishes, …
Read the complete definitionThe material obtained by untwisting and picking into loose fiber old hemp ropes; -- used for calking the seams of …
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