calker

[ kaw-ker ]

/ ˈkɔ kər /

QUIZZES

Even if you can't be a professional chef, you can at least talk like one with this vocabulary quiz.

Question 1 of 9

You may have read the word "simmer" in a recipe or two, but what does it really mean?

calker²

[ kaw-ker ]

/ ˈkɔ kər /

The blacksmith, the rigger, the calker, took their pay in shares.
The Old Merchant Marine|Ralph D. Paine
Learning that I was a calker by trade, he promptly decided that New Bedford was the proper place to send me.
My Bondage and My Freedom|Frederick Douglass
This process is called calking, and the furnace is called a calker furnace.
A Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures and Mines|Andrew Ure
I told him I was a calker, and should like to go where I could get work.
The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass|Frederick Douglass

She has engaged a new maidservant in Mrs. Calker's room, whom she means to make also housekeeper under herself.
The Letters of Jane Austen|Jane Austen