Calking

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Calking \Calk"ing\, n.
     The act or process of making seems tight, as in ships, or of
     furnishing with calks, as a shoe, or copying, as a drawing.
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     {Calking iron}, a tool like a chisel, used in calking ships,


        tightening seams in ironwork, etc.
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              Their left hand does the calking iron guide.
                                                    --Dryden.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Calk \Calk\ (k[add]k), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Calked}; p. pr. &
     vb. n. {Calking}.] [Either corrupted fr. F. calfater (cf. Pg.
     calafetar, Sp. calafetear), fr. Ar. qalafa to fill up
     crevices with the fibers of palm tree or moss; or fr. OE.
     cauken to tred, through the French fr. L. calcare, fr. calx
     heel. Cf. {Calk} to copy, Inculcate.]
     1. 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.
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     2. 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.
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