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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

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Example Sentences

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calker

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

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

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

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

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 Frederick Douglass

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