1.On the inside, use weatherstripping provided by the manufacturer; on the outside, use calk around the perimeter to ensure a good seal.
英：[kɔ:k]
美：[kɔk]
vt.
堵（船的）缝，泥…的缝
填塞，使不漏水
装防滑尖铁
n.
鞋底防滑尖铁
马蹄防滑刺
复数:calks
第三人称单数:calks
现在分词:calking
过去式:calked
过去分词:calked
verb (1)
transitive verb
to stop up and make tight against leakage (something, such as a boat or its seams, the cracks in a window frame, or the joints of a pipe)
noun
a cleat on the shoe of a horse to prevent slippingalso: a similar device worn on the sole of a shoe
verb (2)
transitive verb
to furnish with calks
to wound with a calk
铁刺
尖铁
Noun probably alteration of calkin, from Middle English kakun, from Middle Dutch or Middle French dialect; Middle Dutch calcoen horse's hoof, from Middle French dialect (Walloon) calcain heel, from Latin calcaneum, from calc-, calx heel
The first known use of calk was in 1587
calisthenicssingular or plural noun
exercises to develop strength and flexibility that are done without special equipment
the art or practice of calisthenics
call1 of 2verb
to speak so as to be heard at a distance : shout
call for help
to utter in a loud clear voice
call out a command
to announce with authority : proclaim
call a halt
to announce the action of (as a sports game)
summon sense 1
call a meeting
to bring into action or discussion
call up reserves
to make a request or demand of or for
call for an end to war
to give temporary control of a computer to a particular set of instructions
to make a telephone call to
to make a brief visit
no salesperson will call
to give a name to
called the cat "Patches"
to address by a name
what did you call me
to regard as being of a certain kind
you can call them generous
to estimate as being
call it an even dollar
to utter a cry
crows calling
to attract game by imitating its cry
halt entry 4 sense 2, suspend call time
call a game on account of rain
call2 of 2noun
a loud cry : shout
a cry of an animal
an imitation of an animal's cry or a device used to make such an imitation
summons entry 1 sense 1, invitation
attraction sense 1
the call of the wild
demand entry 1 sense 1a, claim
request entry 1 sense 1
a brief visit
the act of calling on the telephone
a ruling made by an official of a sports contest
a temporary transfer of control of computer processing to a particular set of instructions
callbacknoun
a return call
recall entry 2 sense 5
calla lilynoun
a plant often grown for its large white bract surrounding a fleshy spike of small yellow flowers
calk
calk
1.On the inside, use weatherstripping provided by the manufacturer; on the outside, use calk around the perimeter to ensure a good seal.
2.Where there are any knee openings, if the deck is painted, calk them with cotton, if varnished, fill them with putty.
3.Seams were being calked, there was painting and oiling going on from day to day.
4.So the ships were got ready for Bres; abundant food and drink and war stores were put into them, their seams were calked with pitch, and they were filled with sweet-smelling frankincense.
5.Listen now, and calk these names into yourself if your head is not able to hold them.
6.In some of the houses were whale-boats, that had been hauled up to be calked and painted, that the men were preparing to launch.
7.The lining inside the frame timbers is of pitch-pine planks, some 4, some 8 inches thick; it was also carefully calked once or twice.
8.Mindful of the State law that forbade the wearing of calked boots on board a railroad train, the men who owned only that sort of footgear were in their stocking feet.
9.The instant she felt her calks bite into the frosty turf, the mare flirted her head, took the bit, and became a veritable glowing battery of beautiful energy.
10.But then the boat was done, and there was no other calking at the moment along the whole harbor front, except some that was being done on a ship by her own sailors.
11.The sturdy mariner repaired, calked, and refloated the damaged ship of the Church.
12.Indeed, he made it in broad daylight, with Barnes not a hundred yards away, calking a dory whose seams had sprung a leak.
13.The carpenter is going to set a post under it in the lower deck, and calk the leaky upper parts, and so we shall go on to America.
14.Worn-out calks are removed promptly with chisel and hammer.
15.They spent part of the day in calking the open seams with grass and the bark of trees, and in the afternoon embarked in the crazy craft and sought the shore.
16.Some were covered with boughs, their winter protection; others were being patched, painted, or calked, preparatory for launching, with an assiduity and solicitude that can only be appreciated by the owners of such craft.
17.Do not attempt to calk her in this condition, for if you should, you would run a good risk upon the boards swelling of badly warping the planking.
18.She drew quickly back, however, as the crunch of calked boots sounded on the porch.
19.Ump explored El Mahdi's shoes, pulled at the calks, picked at the nails, and prodded into the frog of the foot to see if there was any tendency to gravel.
20.And because there was not enough of it, they calked them with the flax of the country, and with the mantles, which they raveled for that purpose.
