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Definition of Calkers
1. calker [n] - See also: calker
Lexicographical Neighbors of Calkers
Literary usage of Calkers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Valentine's Manual of Old New Yorkby New York (N.Y.). Common Council by New York (N.Y.). Common Council (1916)
"resounded with the axes and hammers of busy American ship-carpenters, calkers,
blacksmiths, and joiners. At the immense fire place (it was so large that a ..."
2. Excursions in Normandy: Illustrative of the Character, Manners, Customs, and by Frederic Shoberl (1841)
"... horrible instance of it—The Labouring Class — The Labourers in the Docks —The
calkers —The Ship-Carpenters — The Ordinary Artisans—Separation of the ..."
3. American Negligence Reports, Current Series Cited Am. Neg. Rep.: All the by United States (1898)
"In Butler v. Townsend, supra, the " lumpers " built the scaffold. One of the
calkers used the scaffold afterwards, and was injured. ..."
4. The Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by Isaac Smith Homans, William Buck Dana (1866)
"The power t is unquestionably in the hands of the employers; and the result"' ;5f
well planned and desperately supported strike of the calkers i'' dence ..."
5. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803: Explorations by Early Navigators by Emma Helen Blair, James Alexander Robertson, Edward Gaylord Bourne (1905)
"... each 325; four slave calkers, each 47 and one-half; fourteen Sangley calkers,
who get 1165 pesos; one master of the smithy of Cavite, 425; ..."
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