Crossword-Solution: CALK
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Calk | v. t. | 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. |
| Calk | v. t. | 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. |
| Calk | v. t. | 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. |
| Calk | 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. |
| Calk | n. | An instrument with sharp points, worn on the sole of a shoe or boot, to prevent slipping. |
| Calk | v. i. | To furnish with calks, to prevent slipping on ice; as, to calk the shoes of a horse or an ox. |
| Calk | v. i. | To wound with a calk; as when a horse injures a leg or a foot with a calk on one of the other feet. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| CALK | anagram | KACL, KCAL, LACK |
We have 31 clues for the answer “CALK”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Waterproof a seam or crevice | 1 answer |
| Tapered wedge | 1 answer |
| Stop up cracks, as with putty. | 1 answer |
| Stop up (cracks). | 1 answer |
| Seal with oakum | 1 answer |
| Repair leaky seams. | 1 answer |
| Projection on a shoe to prevent slipping | 1 answer |
| Plug up cracks. | 1 answer |
| Make watertight, as a boat. | 1 answer |
| Make watertight with oakum. | 1 answer |
| Make leakproof (var.) | 1 answer |
| a metal cleat on the bottom front of a horseshoe to prevent slipping | 1 answer |
| Horseshoe wedge | 1 answer |
| Horseshoe spike | 1 answer |
| Horseshoe projection | 1 answer |
| Horseshoe part to prevent slipping. | 1 answer |
| Horseshoe part | 1 answer |
| Horseshoe cleat | 1 answer |
| Fix a leak | 1 answer |
| horse shoe part | 1 answer |
| Cleat's relative | 1 answer |
| shoe part horse | 1 answer |
| Part of a horseshoe | 2 answers |
| Seal seams | 2 answers |
| Fill cracks. | 2 answers |
| stop a leak | 3 answers |
| FILL interstices | 4 answers |
| MAKE airtight | 6 answers |
| MAKE watertight | 7 answers |
| CRACK filler | 15 answers |
| MAKE tight | 32 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with CALK (5)
After learning how to calk, I sought my own employment, made my own contracts, and collected the money which I earned.
After learning to calk, I sought my own employment, made my own contracts, and collected my own earnings; giving Master Hugh no trouble in any part of the transactions to which I was a party.
And many hours more, day by day, he dragged himself around it, lying on his side to calk the gaping seams with moss.
Dowlas and his assistants immediately set to work to repair the charred frame-work of the ribs, and to stop the leak; they took care thoroughly to calk from the outside all the seams that were above low water mark; lower than that they were unable to work, and had to content themselves with such repairs as they could effect in the interior.
The former (6) returned with Henderson to Boonesborough." Among those who had joined Henderson's party was Abraham Hanks from Virginia, the maternal grandfather of Abraham Lincoln; but alarmed by the stories brought by Stewart and his party of fugitives, Hanks and Drake, as recorded by William Calk on that day (April 13th), turned back.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: LAT, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY.
Used 23 times in crossword archives (1952–2012).