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

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 Douglass, Frederick

The blacksmith, the rigger, the calker, took their pay in shares.

From The Old Merchant Marine; A chronicle of American ships and sailors by Paine, Ralph Delahaye

I told him I was a calker, and should like to go where I could get work.

From Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Douglass, Frederick

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 Child, Lydia Maria Francis

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 Robertson, James Alexander