Definitions for calks

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calks calk

Spelling: [kawk]

IPA: /kɔk/

Calks is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 59 anagrams from letters in calks (ackls).

Definitions for calks

noun

1. Also, calkin. a projection on a horseshoe to prevent slipping on ice, pavement, etc.
2. Also, calker. a similar device on the heel or sole of a shoe to prevent slipping.
3. Also, caulking [kaw-king] /ˈkɔ kɪŋ/ (Show IPA). a material or substance used for caulking.

verb (used with object)

1. to provide with calks.
2. to injure with a calk.
3. to fill or close seams or crevices of (a tank, window, etc.) in order to make watertight, airtight, etc.
4. to make (a vessel) watertight by filling the seams between the planks with oakum or other material driven snug.
5. to fill or close (a seam, joint, etc.), as in a boat.
6. to drive the edges of (plating) together to prevent leakage.

verb (used with object), noun

1. caulk.

Origin of calks

1580-90; perhaps a back formation from calkin, taken as a verb calk + -in present participle suffix (Middle English -inde), confused with -ing

Examples for calks

"If we stay here long enough we must calk the seams," Jim said as he wiped the perspiration from his face.

I calk'late we never fetched a harder pull, no, nor a blinder one.

The calk of the iron shoe was left sticking in the barn door.

Then it was decided to take part of the cargo out and calk her topsides.

I can calk the seams with some of our clothes, and part of the sail cloth.

We need that in our boat—if it ever gets calm enough to calk it, declared Abe.

Afterwards I helped to careen the Ships, to refit them, and to calk them.

The more I calk up the sources, and the tighter I get, the more I leak wisdom.

Sprinkle a little on the calk, heat it in the fire, watch the fire.

In common with calk'late, it has sometimes a sense of purpose or expectation, as when a man says, "I 'low to go to town to-morry."