Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Chalk; limestone. Also spelled
cawk . - noun An English miners' name for sulphate of baryta or heavy-spar.
- To tread, as a cock.
- To calk. See
calk . - noun See
calk .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun See
cawk ,calker .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun mineralogy An
opaque ,compact variety ofbarite , or heavyspar .
Etymologies
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Examples
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I at working on my lunchbreak and someone sent me a link to the photos of him laying on the ground in his apartment - he was blotched with purple and blue and had all this strange foamy cauk-like stuff coming out of his nose.
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We had all our canoes brought down, and were obliged to cauk and pitch very attentively the cracks so common in cottonwood.
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Fodgel is ` plump '; cauk and keel are ` chalk and pencil.'
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That's he, mark weel And wow! he has an unco slight O 'cauk and keel.
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A hushumilts, cubitum yt plurimum alttu, fp'mis bor - rente cauk, non raro fmgulart 'efi, fruBu a Solfiitio maturo.
Pedanii Dioscoridis Anazarbei De medicinali materia libri sex Dioscórides , Dioscorides Pedanius , Joannes Ruellius 1550
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