verb
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To drive oakum into the seams of a ship's wooden deck or hull to make it watertight.
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To apply caulking to joints, cracks, or a juncture of different materials.
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Fuck
adjective
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Having cracks or crevices stopped-up with a filler.
Examples of caulked in a Sentence
The canoes are skilfully built of planks sewn together and caulked.
These boats are either plain dug-outs, with or without outriggers, or regularly built by planks tightly laced and well caulked to an excavated keel.
The materials required are iron borings, sal-ammoniac and sulphur; these are mixed together, moistened with water, and rammed into the socket, which is previously half filled with yarn, well caulked.
This consists of a heavy cast iron ring, known as a wedging crib, or curb, also fitted together in segments, which is lodged in a square-edged groove cut for its reception, tightly caulked with moss, and wedged into position.
In the 19th century, fishermen still caulked (filled the gaps in) their boats with a mixture of pine tar and moss.
The joints are packed or caulked with tow, smeared with a mixture of white and red lead.
These vessels were made of planks well fitted and sewn together, the joints being caulked and pitched.'