- a variation of caulker.
calker
1 Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of calker
Example Sentences
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Isabel was married, after her baptism, to Maestre Andrés, a calker of the fleet.
The blacksmith, the rigger, the calker, took their pay in shares.
From The Old Merchant Marine; A chronicle of American ships and sailors by Ralph Delahaye Paine
It was new, hard, and dirty work, even for a calker, but I went at it with a glad heart and a willing hand.
From My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass
He was afraid to seek employment as a calker, lest spies from his master should be on the watch for him.
From The Freedmen's Book by Lydia Maria Francis Child
She was named Isabel, and married Master Andrea, a Greek calker, a few days after.
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