calk
IPA: kˈɔk
noun
- A pointed projection on a horseshoe to prevent its slipping.
- A spike on the sole of a boot to prevent slipping, particularly used in logging
- A surname from German.
- An unincorporated community in Montgomery County, Kentucky, United States.
verb
- To make an indentation in the edge of a metal plate, as along a seam in a steam boiler or an iron ship, to force the edge of the upper plate hard against the lower and so fill the crevice.
- To copy (a drawing) by rubbing the back of it with red or black chalk, and then passing a blunt stylus or needle over the lines, so as to leave a tracing on the paper or other thing against which it is laid or held.
- (possibly dated) Alternative spelling of caulk [(nautical) To drive oakum into the seams of a ship's wooden deck or hull to make it watertight.]
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Examples of "calk" in Sentences
- Then it was decided to take part of the cargo out and calk her topsides.
- "A little 'calk' all round won't hurt us after that tramp, Sergeant!" he observed kindly.
- And many hours more, day by day, he dragged himself around it, lying on his side to calk the gaping seams with moss.
- Morbific material is introduced into the region of the lateral cartilage by means of calk wounds and other penetrant injuries of the foot.
- Most of the time I really and truely just calk it up to him being there, dealing with all the stress alone and those extremely long missions!
- They said to us, "Here's a brand new pool, better than the old one and ... oh yeah, here's a tube of calk - you want to climb up and fix that leaky roof??"
- When due to calk wounds where horses are kicked, the injury is often on the side of the tarsus (medial or lateral) and such wounds not infrequently result in infectious arthritis.
- He waited with a new missile at the moment, the America one called Stinger, but all of the surface-to-air missiles in the group-indeed, throughout the whole area-were merely calk arrows now: tools for the Archer.
- 'Sam Turk had nothing whatsoever to do with incident,' said Christian, decisively, and he calk for a second television and video recorder, equipment having arrived, he inserted into second machine the news tape of Digby's de from his hotel and his encounter with the rail lobby |
- If a calk wound has been inflicted, the adjoining surface structures are freed of hair and the parts cleansed in the usual manner, (which in wounds recently inflicted, should be done without employing quantities of water) and after painting the wound surface with tincture of iodin and saturating its depths with the same agent, the wound is cleansed, if it contains filth, by means of a small curette.
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