Etymology
Origin of caulker
Example Sentences
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A box slung to a ship's side whereon a caulker can sit and use his irons; it contains his tools and oakum.
From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Sir Edward Belcher
The whole world is contracted into a caulker.
From Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) by John Lyde Wilson
I need a caulker, for there’s trouble on hand.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson Swanston Edition Vol. 6 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson
Finding the sloop proved leaky I proceeded home to Catskill, where I procured a caulker and gave her some repairs, when we returned to Rondout and took on board another cargo of coal.
From Journal of Voyages Containing an Account of the Author's being Twice Captured by the English and Once by Gibbs the Pirate... by Jacob Dunham
There’s more in life than whacking rivets and holding the caulker.
From Prescott of Saskatchewan by W. Herbert Dunton
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