Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who calks; especially, one whose occupation is the calking of ships.
- noun Same as
calk . - noun One who calculates nativities.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who calks.
- noun A calk on a shoe. See
Calk , n., 1.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who
calks . - noun A
calk on ashoe .
Etymologies
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Examples
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It was imparted to me by a calker, who owned a woolly French poodle, which remarkable animal, he informed me, used to swim out regularly once a week, -- on
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 25, November, 1859 Various
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In the fort it was decided to leave about forty men "with a provision of bread and wine for more than a year, seed for planting, the long boat of the ship, a calker, a carpenter, a gunner, and many other persons who have earnestly desired to serve your Highnesses and oblige me by remaining here and searching for the gold mine."
Christopher Columbus Mildred Stapley Byne
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Learning that my trade was that of a calker, he promptly decided that the best place for me was in New Bedford, Mass.
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While before the law of the State he was the equal of any other man, caste prejudice prevented him from finding work at his trade of calker; and he therefore sought employment as a laborer.
Frederick Douglass 1932
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Douglass's new friends advised him to go to New Bedford, Massachusetts, where whaling fleets were fitted out, and where he might hope to find work at his trade of ship-calker.
Frederick Douglass 1932
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Was sent to Baltimore to learn the ship-calker's trade.
Frederick Douglass 1932
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Others were there, not of the church; Kibby Baker, the atheist, who had heard the news through the church window where he peeped at the worshipers; Miah White's brother, the ship-calker, summoned by his sister; a score of others, herding down the dark wind.
The Best Short Stories of 1917 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story Various 1915
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Hugh Auld easily succeeded in getting young Douglass apprenticed to a calker, in the extensive ship-yards of William Gardiner, on Fell's Point.
Frederick Douglass 1906
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Page 66 back to common labour, at which he could earn less than one-half of what he could have made as a calker.
Frederick Douglass 1906
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Auld, Hugh, apprentices Douglass to a ship-calker, 51; sells Douglass his own time, 55; sells Douglass into freedom, 113.
Frederick Douglass 1906
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