Definitions for Calkins

Calkins cal·kin

Spelling: [kaw-kin, kal-]
IPA: /ˈkɔ kɪn, ˈkæl-/

Calkins is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 223 anagrams from letters in Calkins (aciklns).

Definitions for Calkins

noun

  1. calk2 (def 1).

Origin of Calkins

1400-50; late Middle English kakun Middle Dutch calcoen hoof Old French (Walloon) calcain Latin calcāneum heel; see calcaneum

Examples for Calkins

Sylvia meditated selling enough calkin's soap to buy a new one, and stow that away in Mr. Allen's room.

“Mrs. Jim Jones has got a beautiful one she bought selling calkin's soap,” she said.

Or, on the same branch, may be turned up a calkin of sufficient height for the purpose.

Mrs. Jim Jones had a mirror which she had earned by selling calkin's soap, which Sylvia considered much handsomer.

The calkin's soap ware was packed away on the top shelf of the pantry.

Instances are the patents issued to Messrs. calkin and Muller.

This suggests at once that a preventive is to be found in substituting a calkin that is low and square.

Treads, too, especially with the calkin of the hind-shoe, are especially apt to end in this way.

Word Value for Calkins
Scrable

12

Words with friends

15

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