Then it was decided to take part of the cargo out and calk her topsides.
The calk of the iron shoe was left sticking in the barn door.
The more I calk up the sources, and the tighter I get, the more I leak wisdom.
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.
Sprinkle a little on the calk, heat it in the fire, watch the fire.
Afterwards I helped to careen the Ships, to refit them, and to calk them.
I calk'late we never fetched a harder pull, no, nor a blinder one.
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."
"If we stay here long enough we must calk the seams," Jim said as he wiped the perspiration from his face.
late 14c., "to stop up crevices or cracks," from Old North French cauquer, from Late Latin calicare "to stop up chinks with lime," from Latin calx (2) "lime, limestone" (see chalk). Original sense is nautical, of making ships watertight. Related: Caulked; caulking. As a noun, "caulking material," by 1980 (caulking in this sense was used from 1743). Related: Caulker.
