Definitions for caulkers

caulkers caulk·er

Spelling: [kaw-ker]
IPA: /ˈkɔ kər/

Caulkers is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 406 anagrams from letters in caulkers (aceklrsu).

Definitions for caulkers

noun

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

Origin of caulkers

First recorded in 1485-95; caulk + -er1

Examples for caulkers

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

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

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

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 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.

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

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

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

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

Word Value for caulkers
Scrable

13

Words with friends

16

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