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  1. p. pr. & vb. n. of Calk
  2. n. The act or process of making seems tight, as in ships, or of furnishing with calks, as a shoe, or copying, as a drawing.
  3. The act or process of making seems tight, as in ships, or of furnishing with calks, as a shoe, or copying, as a drawing. Calking iron, a tool like a chisel, used in calking ships, tightening seams in ironwork, etc. Their left hand does the calking iron guide. Dryden.
  4. The act or process of making seems tight, as in ships, or offurnishing with calks, as a shoe, or copying, as a drawing. Calkingiron, a tool like a chisel, used in calking ships, tightening seamsin ironwork, etc.Their left hand does the calking iron guide. Dryden.
  5. v provide with calks v seal with caulking v injure with a calk