calk

calk is a 4-letter English word with 11 senses as transitive verb, noun, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To drive tarred oakum into the seams between the planks of (a ship, boat, etc.), to prevent leaking. The calking is completed by smearing the seams with melted pitch. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

4 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 12 · 11 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. To drive tarred oakum into the seams between the planks of (a ship, boat, etc.), to prevent leaking. The calking is completed by smearing the seams with melted pitch.
2. transitive verb. To make an indentation in the edge of a metal plate, as along a seam in a steam boiler or an iron ship, to force the edge of the upper plate hard against the lower and so fill the crevice.
3. transitive verb. To copy, as a drawing, by rubbing the back of it with red or black chalk, and then passing a blunt style or needle over the lines, so as to leave a tracing on the paper or other thing against which it is laid or held.
4. noun. A sharp-pointed piece of iron or steel projecting downward on the shoe of a horse or an ox, to prevent the animal from slipping; -- called also calker, calkin.
5. noun. An instrument with sharp points, worn on the sole of a shoe or boot, to prevent slipping.
6. intransitive verb. To furnish with calks, to prevent slipping on ice; as, to calk the shoes of a horse or an ox.
7. intransitive verb. To wound with a calk; as when a horse injures a leg or a foot with a calk on one of the other feet.
8. noun. a metal cleat on the bottom front of a horseshoe to prevent slipping

   Synonyms: calkin

9. verb. injure with a calk
10. verb. seal with caulking

    "caulk the window"

    Synonyms: caulk

11. verb. provide with calks

    "calk horse shoes"

Synonyms

calkin, caulk

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in calk:

kcal, lack

Common word forms

calks, calked, calker, calking

Words from these letters

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