"Tell you what, boys," said Dabney: "next time we come out we'll bring a hammer and nails, and some oakum, and I'll calk up that old punt

The verb "calk" may come from the Danish kalk, chalk,to rub over,or from the Italian calafatare.

repair; put in repair, remanufacture, put in thorough repair, put in complete repair; retouch, refashion, botch^, vamp, tinker, cobble; do up, patch up, touch up, plaster up, vamp up; darn, finedraw^, heelpiece^; stop a gap, stanch, staunch, caulk, calk, careen, splice, bind up wounds.

If incisions are made in the stems of the trees, an abundant pleasant-smelling white resin flows from them, which is largely used in the Philippines to calk ships with.

There was a gap in the horseshoe where the calk should have been.

Let the shoes be as light as possible, and without calks if it can be afforded, as the mule always travels unsteady on them.

The Goodenough shoe is far superior to the old calked shoe, and will answer every purpose where holding is necessary.

The header is used by placing the gauge or guide end within the flue, and with your light hammer the flue can be calked or beaded down against the flue sheet.

Shoes with heels or calks too high, by destroying the counter-pressure of the frog with the ground, serve to bring about a series of changes we have described under contraction, and again result in pinching and bruising of the sensitive structures.

Splinters flew where the sharp calks bit into the wharf planking, and his companions applauded.

She heard his deep, drawly voice urging the unwisdom of sleeping with calked boots on, and Beaton's hiccupy response.

He wore evening clothes when occasion required as unconcernedly as he wore mackinaws and calked boots among his loggers.

Mackinaws and calked boots don't go with oriental rugs and oak floors.

"I'll go see what he wants," Fyfe remarked, "Calked boots won't be good for the porch floor.

Fyfe was beside her, his calked boots biting into the oak floor.

As she sat there, a man dressed in the blue shirt and mackinaw trousers and high, calked boots of the logger turned in off the road, a burly woodsman that she recognized as one of Jack Fyfe's crew.

Her topsides were foul, her decks splintered by the tramping of calked boots, grimy with soot and cinders.

The whole deck was then carefully calked and the sides made watertight with Portland cement.

PINKERTON, ROBERT E. Calk shoed dynamite.

PINKERTON, ROBERT E. Calk shoed dynamite.

When I had gotten these effects on shore, I went to work in order to make me a little tent with the sail and some poles which I had cut for that purpose; and having finished it, what things might be damaged by the weather I brought in, piling all the empty chests and calks in a circle, the better to fortify it against any sudden attempt of man or beast.

Most fortunately a full account of their journey has been kept; for among Henderson's followers at this time was a man named William Calk, who jotted down in his diary the events of each day.[10]

Calk in his journal quoted above, in the midst of entries about his domestic worksuch as, on April 29th "we git our house kivered with bark and move our things into it at Night and Begin housekeeping," and on May 2d, "went and sot in to clearing for corn,"mentions occasionally killing deer and turkey; and once, while looking for a strayed mare, he saw four "bofelos."

Boon's letter, Henderson's journal, Calk's diary, McAfee's autobiography all mention the way in which the early settlers began to swarm out of the country in April, 1775.

When this was done, he went to work on the lighter, which was leaky, and bailed it out, and calked the seams, taking plenty of time, and doing his work in the most thorough manner.