calk

• a metal cleat on the bottom front of a horseshoe to prevent slipping
• provide with calks
• seal with caulking
• injure with a calk
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• An instrument with sharp points, worn on the sole of a shoe or boot, to prevent slipping
• To furnish with calks, to prevent slipping on ice
• To wound with a calk

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