Definitions for caulker

caulker caulk·er

Spelling: [kaw-ker]
IPA: /ˈkɔ kər/

Caulker is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 178 anagrams from letters in caulker (aceklru).

Definitions for caulker

noun

  1. a person who caulks the seams of boats or the like.
  2. a caulking tool or device.

Origin of caulker

First recorded in 1485-95; caulk + -er1

Examples for caulker

The two Torteval lads resumed their march, quickening their steps behind the caulker's apprentice.

She's a caulker, Sissie is; you don't take a rise out of Sissie in a hurry.

Barebone knew it to be the sound of a caulker's hammer in the Government repairing yard on the south side.

The caulker had filled it up with oakum from the inside, since which she had made but little water lying at an anchor.

Mess Lethierry, as did the Duke de Vibonne, called the sheer of the decks la tonture, and the caulker's chisel la patarasse.

For eight-and-forty years she had been high and dry; never a caulker's hammer had rung upon her in all that time.

One of the caulker's tools; it has a groove in it, and is used after the caulking iron to finish off the seam.

The caulker's apprentice, who attends to bring oakum, pitch, &c.

A box slung to a ship's side whereon a caulker can sit and use his irons; it contains his tools and oakum.

A caulker's tool for tearing oakum out of a seam, or stripping copper or sheathing from a ship's bottom.

Word Value for caulker
Scrable

13

Words with friends

16

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