caulker

American  

[kaw-ker] / ˈkɔ kər /

Or calker

noun

1. a person who caulks the seams of boats or the like.

2. a caulking tool or device.

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Etymology

Origin of caulker

First recorded in 1485–95; caulk + -er ¹

Example Sentences

In most applications, master denotes chief; as master boat-builder, master caulker, master sail-maker, &c.

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

Hardy, the caulker, hastened first of all to mend the hull; pegs had to be changed, bits of planking to be replaced, seams to be caulked.

From An Antarctic Mystery by Hoey, Frances Cashel

He's a right down good fellow, and a little sociable with the photographer's boy and the caulker and the blacksmith that work in the navy yard, but not so much with the others.

From The American Claimant by Twain, Mark

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 Dunham, Jacob