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• a variation of caulker.

calker

¹ American  

[kaw-ker] / ˈkɔ kər /

noun

1. caulker.

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calker ² American  

[kaw-ker] / ˈkɔ kər /

noun

1. calk.

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Etymology

Origin of calker

calk + -er ¹

Example Sentences

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calker

She was named Isabel, and married Master Andrea, a Greek calker, a few days after.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803 — Volume 02 of 55 1521-1569 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century by Emma Helen Blair

No wan intherfered with thim; an' that didn't plaze Morgan Dempsey, who 'd served his time a calker in a ship-yard.

From Mr. Dooley: In the Hearts of His Countrymen by Finley Peter Dunne

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

Isabel was married, after her baptism, to Maestre Andrés, a calker of the fleet.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 23 of 55 1629-30 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century. by James Alexander Robertson

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