Caulk

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. To make watertight or airtight by filling or sealing: caulk a pipe joint; caulked the cracks between the boards with mud.
  • v. Nautical To make (a boat) watertight by packing seams with a waterproof material, such as oakum or pitch.
  • verb-intransitive. To apply caulking: caulked all around the window frame.
  • n. Caulking.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. caulking
  • n. a composition of vehicle and pigment used at ambient temperatures for filling/sealing joints or junctures, that remains elastic for an extended period of time after application.
  • v. To drive oakum into the seams of a ship's wooden deck or hull to make it watertight
  • v. To apply caulking to joints, cracks, or a juncture of different materials.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • v. See calk, v..
  • v. to fill in the seams or cracks of, with a waterproof material such as caulk.
  • n. See calk.
  • n. a viscous semisolid material of varying composition used to fill in seams of objects which are exposed to water, such as wooden ships or bath tiles; -- called also calk and caulking. After applying in a semisolid form, the material hardens and dries to form a waterproof seal. It is used in the process of caulking. It is sometimes applied together with a rope-like cord to fill larger seams.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • See calk.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a waterproof filler and sealant that is used in building and repair to make watertight
  • v. seal with caulking
  • Verb Form
    caulked    caulking    caulks   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    sealant    sealer    seal off    seal   
    Variant
    calk    caulking   
    Rhyme
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