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caulking
Word definitions for caulking in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A sealing material used to seal joints between heterogeneous materials in many kinds of construction and manufacture. vb. (present participle of caulk English)
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Caulking is a process used in video game level creation or editing (or mapping ) for the generation of a level, or map , that when compiled is less demanding for the computer's graphics card to render in-game than it would be otherwise. A surface that is ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Caulk \Caulk\, n. See Calk . a viscous semisolid material of varying composition used to fill in seams of objects which are exposed to water, such as wooden ships or bath tiles; -- called also calk and caulking . After applying in a semisolid form, the ...
Usage examples of caulking.
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.
The bottoms of the holes were directly on the caulking groove and the pounding of the drill usually drove the caulking back, so that the leak became dry or nearly so after the holes were drilled.
Each was tamped in with a round caulking tool of the size of the hole driven with a sledge hammer.
The pressure of the ice was so great against the wooden hull that the caulking between the planks was squeezed out.
He studied a gardener on a riding mower, a in a white coat running with towels to the tennis court, a repairman caulking the edge of a window.
And yet, at the moment of writing this, Charmian is in her stateroom at the typewriter, Martin is cooking dinner, Tochigi is setting the table, Roscoe and Bert are caulking the deck, and the Snark is steering herself some five knots an hour in a rattling good sea--and the Snark is not padded, either.
The caulking of the seams remained thoroughly sound, and no drop of water had found its way into the hold.