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caulk
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n. 1 caulking. 2 A composition of vehicle and pigment used at ambient temperatures for filling/sealing joints or junctures, that remains elastic for an extended period of time after application. vb. 1 (context nautical English) To drive oakum into the seams ...
Usage examples of caulk.
He caulked the flaws with wax and clay, and he applied resin to the inner and outer surfaces to protect against further splits.
Then he dropped to his hands and knees before the tightly caulked barrel which was his airlock.
The wooden boxes in which they were packed had been caulked at the seams with oakum and pitch, like the hull of a warship.
The largest single object in the room was a box, the size of a Vagabond-shack but much more finely wrought, of oak planks cleverly joined together, and caulked at the corners with tar and oakum.
Instead, he had packed in two wooden trunks, and a few leather wallets, then caulked the interstices with wadded or rolled papers.
They could be patched with wood whittled to size and pounded in, caulked withwell, caulked with something or other.
She had caulked the wood with fresh frag sap, learning that it did quite well if applied in many thin coats and allowed to dry between.
August, 1907, the joints between the segments of the cast-iron lining were caulked with iron filings and sal ammoniac, mixed in the proportion of 400 to 1 by weight.
A few trials of lead wire caulked cold gave such satisfactory results that it was adopted as a substitute.
These broke up under the blows of the hammer, and caulked the hole tight.
He found square log houses, caulked with moss, deer pounds, birchbark canoes and bows of sycamore with arrows feathered with goose quills.
The last of the caulking was carried out the next day so that the entire island seemed to reek of pine tar and wet wool.
Pneumatic hammers were used successfully on the lead caulking, but were only used to a small extent on the rust borings, which were mostly hand caulked.
The average labor cost chargeable against the caulking was 12 cents per lin.
The contraction of the concrete, firmly bedded around the flanges of the iron, and showing cracks at fairly uniform intervals, probably localized the small corresponding movements of the iron near the concrete cracks, and resulted in a loosening of the caulking at these points.