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n. A pointed extension on the toe or heels of a horseshoe, designed to prevent slipping.

n. A spiked plate fixed on the bottom of a shoe to prevent slipping and preserve the sole.

v. Variant of caulk.

n. A pointed projection on a horseshoe to prevent it slipping.

v. Alternative spelling of caulk.

v. To drive tarred oakum into the seams between the planks of (a ship, boat, etc.), to prevent leaking. The calking is completed by smearing the seams with melted pitch.

v. To make an indentation in the edge of a metal plate, as along a seam in a steam boiler or an iron ship, to force the edge of the upper plate hard against the lower and so fill the crevice.

v. To copy, as a drawing, by rubbing the back of it with red or black chalk, and then passing a blunt style or needle over the lines, so as to leave a tracing on the paper or other thing against which it is laid or held.

n. A sharp-pointed piece of iron or steel projecting downward on the shoe of a horse or an ox, to prevent the animal from slipping; -- called also calker, calkin.

n. An instrument with sharp points, worn on the sole of a shoe or boot, to prevent slipping.

n. same as caulk{2}, n..

verb-intransitive. To furnish with calks, to prevent slipping on ice.

verb-intransitive. To wound with a calk; as when a horse injures a leg or a foot with a calk on one of the other feet.

verb-intransitive. same as caulk{2}, v. t..

To drive oakum into the seams of (a ship or other vessel). See calking, 1.

To cover with chalk, as the back of a design, for the purpose of transferring a copy of it.

To copy, as a drawing, a map, etc., by tracing. See calking.

n. A spur projecting downward from a horseshoe, serving to prevent slipping.

n. A piece of iron with sharp points worn on the sole or heel of the shoe or boot to prevent slipping on the ice or to make it wear longer: also worn by lumbermen in the woods, and especially on the drive.

To fit with calks, as horseshoes.

To injure or hurt with a calk, as when a horse wounds one of his feet with the calk on another foot.

To calculate.

n. A calking; in a slang use, a surreptitious nap; a snooze.

n. a metal cleat on the bottom front of a horseshoe to prevent slipping

v. seal with caulking

v. provide with calks

v. injure with a calk

"And many hours more, day by day, he dragged himself around it, lying on his side to calk the gaping seams with moss."

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calque    calker    calkin    caulk{2}   

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