Etymology
Origin of caulker
Example Sentences
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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
There’s more in life than whacking rivets and holding the caulker.
From Prescott of Saskatchewan by Dunton, W. Herbert
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
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
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