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Definition of Calking
1. 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.
Definition of Calking
1. Verb. (present participle of calk) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Calking
1. material used to calk [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Calking
Literary usage of Calking
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Design of Steam Boilers and Pressure Vessels by George Bartholomew Haven, George Wright Swett (1915)
"calking. — Riveted work as it comes from the machine is never proof against
leakage, but must be calked tight. For this reason riveted plates are always ..."
2. Practical Ship Production by Andrew Williams Carmichael (1919)
"The row of rivets nearest to the calking edge or butt serves to hold the plates (or
parts being riveted) together so that the calking will be effective, ..."
3. Marine Engineers' Handbook by Frank W (Ed Sterling (1920)
"It is obvious that calking on the inside of the shell only is a much more difficult
and expensive job than the usual method of depending on the outside ..."
4. The Mechanical Engineering of Steam Power Plants by Frederick Remsen Hutton (1908)
"Edge Planing and calking. The shearing of the steel plates to size has left an
edge or selvage of metal which is brittle and unreliable from the effect of ..."
5. Handbook of Construction Equipment: Its Cost and Use by Richard Turner Dana (1921)
"calking is somewhat difficult if ordinary methods are pursued, but by the use of
an outfit such as-is described under "Air Compressors" this difficulty is ..."
6. Shield and Compressed Air Tunneling by Bertram Henry Majendie Hewett, Sigvald Johannesson (1922)
"As the groove is coated no rusting together of the calking material and the cast
... It is probable that if the groove were uncoated the calking would be ..."
7. A Manual of Steam-boilers: Their Design, Construction, and Operation by Robert Henry Thurston (1888)
"Chipping and calking scams after they are riveted up is a process which is ...
The use fif, the calking-tool has sometimes resulted in similar injury; ..."
8. Water-supply Engineering; the Designing, Construction, and Maintenance of by Amory Prescott Folwell (1899)
"In placing the ordinary extension valve-boxes, their tops should be set a little
below the top of the filling, and two or FIG. 88.—YARNING AND calking TOOLS ..."
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