Etymology
Origin of caulker
Example Sentences
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The caulker had filled it up with oakum from the inside, since which she had made but little water lying at an anchor.
From An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales, Volume 2 by Collins, David
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 Belcher, Edward, Sir
Off with your caulker, and take down the dogs to the boat.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 372, October 1846 by Various
From lack of evidence he was soon released, and was then sent to Hugh Auld in Baltimore, where he was apprenticed as a ship caulker.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 6 "Dodwell" to "Drama" by Various
In ships of war there are two carpenter's mates and one caulker, one blacksmith, and a carpenter's crew, according to the size of the ship.
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 Belcher, Edward, Sir
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