英语词汇“calk”造句子简单的方法、技巧、例句及翻译-英语例句辞典

The carpenter is going to set a post under it in the lower deck, and calk the leaky upper parts, and so we shall go on to America. A Pilgrim Maid A Story of Plymouth Colony in 1620 2012-04-02T02:00:24.090Z

The load sank the weak scow so deeply that the water ran into cracks in her side, despite their calking; and as they were afraid to embark the whole expedition, two trips were made. The Ice Queen 2012-03-22T02:00:40.843Z

Also the house has to be "calked" occasionally to keep out draughts and more particularly creeping enemies of the hive, like bee-moths and bee-lice. Insect Stories 2012-03-21T02:00:36.600Z

Indeed, he made it in broad daylight, with Barnes not a hundred yards away, calking a dory whose seams had sprung a leak. The Million Dollar Mystery Novelized from the Scenario of F. Lonergan 2012-03-15T02:00:21.153Z

The floor itself was calked with plaster of Paris and common paste, then two inches of Manilla oakum was thrown over it, and upon this a canvas carpet was spread. North-Pole Voyages 2012-03-01T03:00:27.283Z

In some of the houses were whale-boats, that had been hauled up to be calked and painted, that the men were preparing to launch. Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast 2012-02-22T03:00:25.113Z

They calked it with cotton; the natives supplied pitch; and in thirty-five days the vessel was launched. Oregon and Eldorado or, Romance of the Rivers 2012-02-07T03:00:09.010Z

The first, which is less hard, is used for tinder when dried; also for the rigging and smaller cordage of the ships, or as tow for calking them. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 29 of 55 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century 2012-02-03T03:00:18.817Z

By help of Mr. Ruggles, employment at calking was obtained in New Bedford, a large town in Massachusetts, where a great many ships are constantly employed. The Freedmen's Book 2012-01-05T03:00:39.763Z

The next day they drew their leaking crafts ashore, and calked them for another sea adventure. North-Pole Voyages 2012-03-01T03:00:27.283Z

Some were covered with boughs, their winter protection; others were being patched, painted, or calked, preparatory for launching, with an assiduity and solicitude that can only be appreciated by the owners of such craft. Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast 2012-02-22T03:00:25.113Z

So the ships were got ready for Bres; abundant food and drink and war stores were put into them, their seams were calked with pitch, and they were filled with sweet-smelling frankincense. Old Celtic Romances 2011-11-19T03:00:26.863Z

The crevices between the logs constituting the walls are tightly calked with moss gathered from surrounding trees. Forest Life and Forest Trees: comprising winter camp-life among the loggers, and wild-wood adventure. with Descriptions of lumbering operations on the various rivers of Maine and New Brunswick 2011-10-11T02:01:03.847Z

When he returned to Baltimore he was let out to work at calking vessels; and he soon became so expert at the business that he earned from seven to nine dollars a week. The Freedmen's Book 2012-01-05T03:00:39.763Z

Afterwards I helped to careen the Ships, to refit them, and to calk them. The Travels and Adventures of James Massey 2011-09-13T02:00:31.293Z

Listen now, and calk these names into yourself if your head is not able to hold them. The Deluge, Vol. I. (of 2) An Historical Novel of Poland, Sweden, and Russia. 2011-08-26T02:00:24.433Z

“Throw ’em in!” snapped Reivers, and the handlers thrust the three combatants, stripped to the waists but wearing calked lumberjack shoes, through the ropes. The Snow-Burner 2011-05-17T02:00:21.527Z

"The knee acted up and then the Achilles followed after that, and then the calk started cramping up," Woods said. Tiger Woods withdraws from Players after 9 holes 2011-05-12T14:47:13Z

We want her sides calked with oakum, an' well scraped an' painted, so that with water inside of her or outside of her she won't leak. The Casting Away of Mrs. Lecks and Mrs. Aleshine 2011-03-15T02:00:14.097Z

We all then went to calking up and painting our boats, which was no small job for us, for we knew nothing about a boat. Adventures in the Canyons of the Colorado By two of its earliest explorers 2011-03-08T03:00:36.293Z

In such a climate as that of Africa a canoe cracks, and for want of calking it often becomes so leaky as to require constant baling. The World and Its People: Book VII Views in Africa 2011-02-13T03:00:17.920Z

A few days of pleasant weather were occupied in calking the decks. Cruise and Captures of the Alabama 2011-01-30T03:00:18.733Z

Never a word said the young riverman as he turned and clattered down the trail, his calked boots rasping on the pebbles. Lost Farm Camp 2011-01-23T03:00:16.437Z

And because there was not enough of it, they calked them with the flax of the country, and with the mantles, which they raveled for that purpose. A Narrative of the expedition of Hernando de Soto into Florida published at Evora in 1557 2011-01-20T03:00:07.377Z

Powell got a man discharged out of the army at Fort Bridger to come and show us how to calk the boats. Adventures in the Canyons of the Colorado By two of its earliest explorers 2011-03-08T03:00:36.293Z

Oh, here I come from the Kay-ni-beck, With my old calk boots slung round my neck Here we come—yas, a-here we come— A hundred men and a jug of rum. King Spruce, A Novel 2011-01-15T03:00:34.400Z

To begin, it had two very essential qualities—it was strongly made and it was well calked throughout. The Red Miriok 2011-01-04T03:01:16.847Z

She drew quickly back, however, as the crunch of calked boots sounded on the porch. Lost Farm Camp 2011-01-23T03:00:16.437Z

My first impulse was to calk up the throat of M. Mondet with several sheets of his abominable assurances. She Buildeth Her House 2011-01-04T03:01:05.167Z

Not at all unlikely," replied I quietly; "we had a fire below when we were calking the seams of the pinnace. The Swiss Family Robinson or, Adventures on a Desert Island 2011-01-03T03:01:03.473Z

Mindful of the State law that forbade the wearing of calked boots on board a railroad train, the men who owned only that sort of footgear were in their stocking feet. King Spruce, A Novel 2011-01-15T03:00:34.400Z

They spent part of the day in calking the open seams with grass and the bark of trees, and in the afternoon embarked in the crazy craft and sought the shore. Vasco Nu?ez de Balboa 2011-01-02T03:00:18.200Z

"If we stay here long enough we must calk the seams," Jim said as he wiped the perspiration from his face. A Runaway Brig; or, An Accidental Cruise 2011-01-02T03:00:16.390Z

The instant she felt her calks bite into the frosty turf, the mare flirted her head, took the bit, and became a veritable glowing battery of beautiful energy. She Buildeth Her House 2011-01-04T03:01:05.167Z

Seams were being calked, there was painting and oiling going on from day to day. A Child of the Sea; and Life Among the Mormons 2010-12-30T03:00:27.140Z

Three leaps, his calk boots biting the logs, put Tommy out of sight behind the pile. King Spruce, A Novel 2011-01-15T03:00:34.400Z

Both mules had new calks on their shoes, and that would give them better footing in snow. The Lost Wagon 2010-12-20T17:12:36.807Z

Cracks between the logs were calked with dry moss. Camping at Cherry Pond 2010-12-20T17:12:23.997Z

Come on! let’s hurl ivery bit o’ calk out o’ the pit.” The Parson O' Dumford

The layer of wax we scraped carefully off and found it most satisfactory for calking our leaky kayaks. Farthest North Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship 'Fram' 1893-1896

The calking was all done from the inside. Fifty Years a Hunter and Trapper Autobiography, experiences and observations of Eldred Nathaniel Woodcock during his fifty years of hunting and trapping.

The fiber of the husk is used extensively by the natives for calking boats. The Cocoanut With reference to its products and cultivation in the Philippines

The steel toe calk is welded in, the ends are bent to form the heels, the holes for nails are punctured, the shoe taking an occasional plunge into the flames during these processes. Landseer A collection of fifteen pictures and a portrait of the painter with introduction and interpretation

Where there are any knee openings, if the deck is painted, calk them with cotton, if varnished, fill them with putty. Harper's Round Table, September 3, 1895

Our preparations consisted, first and foremost, in carefully calking the seams of our kayaks by melting stearine over them, and then restowing the cargo so as to leave room for us to sit in them. Farthest North Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship 'Fram' 1893-1896

After the chinking and calking was done, we dug into a clay bank and got clay, which we mixed with ashes taken from the fire then added sufficient water to make a rather stiff mortar. Fifty Years a Hunter and Trapper Autobiography, experiences and observations of Eldred Nathaniel Woodcock during his fifty years of hunting and trapping.

Having next made sure that she was well calked and dry, I led the se�or through the house. A Volunteer with Pike The True Narrative of One Dr. John Robinson and of His Love for the Fair Señorita Vallois

The sturdy mariner repaired, calked, and refloated the damaged ship of the Church. Anatole France The Revolt of the Angels

Do not attempt to calk her in this condition, for if you should, you would run a good risk upon the boards swelling of badly warping the planking. Harper's Round Table, September 3, 1895

We work in an intermittent way at the kayak grips of wood for our sledges, and at calking and painting our kayaks to make them water-tight. Farthest North Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship 'Fram' 1893-1896

When Mr. Harris returned I had the roof on, the chinking all in and the gable end boarded up with shakes and all ready to begin calking and mudding. Fifty Years a Hunter and Trapper Autobiography, experiences and observations of Eldred Nathaniel Woodcock during his fifty years of hunting and trapping.

If his neighbor's tub leaked, it was his neighbor's fault for not keeping it calked. The Vision of Elijah Berl

I got in, and the conscious waters immediately began vigorously spurting through the cotton wadding wherewith the craft was calked. With the World's Great Travellers, Volume 1

The lining inside the frame timbers is of pitch-pine planks, some 4, some 8 inches thick; it was also carefully calked once or twice. Farthest North Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship 'Fram' 1893-1896 Vol. I

Old Christian sprung the calks on the horn of the anvil, and returned the shoe. Dwellers in the Hills

The second day after we got into the woods we had the camp in pretty good shape, well chinked and calked. Fifty Years a Hunter and Trapper Autobiography, experiences and observations of Eldred Nathaniel Woodcock during his fifty years of hunting and trapping.

If the cracks between cover and jar still remain, calk them with asbestos packing, tow, or ordinary wrapping string. The Automobile Storage Battery Its Care And Repair

After the lead cools, it must be expanded or calked by driving the calking tool hard against it. Rural Hygiene

We found that some emigrants had calked two wagon beds and lashed them together, and were using this craft for crossing. Ox-Team Days on the Oregon Trail

The hunchback thrust his hand between the calks, raised the shoe and squinted along its surface to see if it were entirely level. Dwellers in the Hills

Then we replaced the chinkings that the porcupines had gnawed out, calked and mudded all cracks. Fifty Years a Hunter and Trapper Autobiography, experiences and observations of Eldred Nathaniel Woodcock during his fifty years of hunting and trapping.

But then the boat was done, and there was no other calking at the moment along the whole harbor front, except some that was being done on a ship by her own sailors. Dr. Sevier

The day was devoted to calking the launch, repairing it, and the next day, July 24th, they put out to sea again. The Voyages and Adventures of Captain Hatteras

Old chisels and broken knives were hunted up, and a boat repairing and calking campaign began. Ox-Team Days on the Oregon Trail

Ump explored El Mahdi's shoes, pulled at the calks, picked at the nails, and prodded into the frog of the foot to see if there was any tendency to gravel. Dwellers in the Hills

Yes, I always chunk well and calk good with moss before I mud it, then you have a good warm camp. Fifty Years a Hunter and Trapper Autobiography, experiences and observations of Eldred Nathaniel Woodcock during his fifty years of hunting and trapping.

Then, when she was planked up, with a gunwale on, and half-decked over forward, she was calked, and the seams payed with pitch. Captain Brand of the "Centipede" A Pirate of Eminence in the West Indies: His Love and Exploits, Together with Some Account of the Singular Manner by Which He Departed This Life

I spent some time calking up cracks around the windows, where the snow blew in. Track's End Being the Narrative of Judson Pitcher's Strange Winter Spent There As Told by Himself and Edited by Hayden Carruth Including an Accurate Account of His Numerous Adventures, and the Facts Concerning His Several Surprising Escapes from Death Now First Printed in Full

The men took tallow and oakum and roughly calked the seams of this boat, so that it was possible to get it across the river to Fort Smith eventually. Young Alaskans in the Far North

At the foot of the hill as we came up, the Cardinal caught a stone between the calks of one of his hind shoes, and Jud got off to pry it out. Dwellers in the Hills

We put in two days cutting wood and calking and mudding the shanty wherever the chinking and mud had been worked out by squirrels and other small animals. Fifty Years a Hunter and Trapper Autobiography, experiences and observations of Eldred Nathaniel Woodcock during his fifty years of hunting and trapping.

A couple of white men were calking a large ferry-boat, but as it was not yet seaworthy and as they had no cable, the horses must swim. The Trail of the Goldseekers A Record of Travel in Prose and Verse

But as for me, I’m like an old horse-shoe with its calks worn off. The Prairie Child

It is also used extensively for calking vessels, making waterproof roofs, lining cold storage plants, making varnishes as well as shoe blacking as well as in a hundred other ways. Birdseye Views of Far Lands

When the logs meet the rafter pole all the cracks are chinked up with small pieces of wood and the crevices calked with moss. Shelters, Shacks and Shanties

House Sewers.—Where the ground is "made," or filled in, the house sewer must be made of cast iron, with the joints properly calked with lead. The Home Medical Library, Volume V (of VI)

The calking completed, reported ourselves at Macào; but no Commodore appearing, and our coppers being worn out, went over to Hong-Kong to get them repaired. Kathay: A Cruise in the China Seas

Leo, who had been examining his boat, which he had drawn up on the beach to dry overnight, now asked a little time to calk a leak which he had discovered. The Young Alaskans in the Rockies

When the groove has been filled the soft-iron pieces are calked or spread so as to hold the blades firmly in place. Steam Turbines A Book of Instruction for the Adjustment and Operation of the Principal Types of this Class of Prime Movers

If the logs fit close together on the roof they may be calked with moss and dry grass. Shelters, Shacks and Shanties

The remaining space is filled with hot molten lead, which, on cooling, is well rammed and calked in by special tools made for the purpose. The Home Medical Library, Volume V (of VI)

Rolls of fat were tucked into every nook, jammed into every corner, calked into every crevice; and, at last, demanding place, they scandalously overflowed the apron. The Mother

I’ve seen an oyster boat, that was leaking at every seam, calked and patched and painted to be good as new.” Killykinick

We must try and calk up some of the open seams; but first we’ve got to get the water out of her.’ The Associate Hermits

The leak in the Barracouta's bow was calked, making her as tight as before. Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good

Workmen were swarming all over her like bees, hammering, calking, and painting, yet it was plain that they could not do in a week what needed a month to finish. The Windy Hill

The calks in these climbing-irons were about an inch and a quarter long; we wished they had been two inches. The Ascent of Denali (Mount McKinley) A Narrative of the First Complete Ascent of the Highest Peak in North America

But the sufferers from scurvy recovered in a short time, the sails were mended, and the vessel calked and repaired, and the crew had the unexpected good fortune of catching no fever. Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part 2. The Great Navigators of the Eighteenth Century

This person was Arthur Raybold, who had found the bishop calking the boat, and as soon as this work was finished, had moodily declared that he would take a row in her. The Associate Hermits

His fingers found what he wanted, an opening between two planks, where a leak had been freshly calked with oakum. Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good

Our ship is badly out of trim; 'Tis time to calk and grave her; She's foul with stench of human gore; They've turned her to a slaver. In The Boyhood of Lincoln A Tale of the Tunker Schoolmaster and the Times of Black Hawk

The joints below water were calked by divers and above water by masons, and a section was then grouted. Concrete Construction Methods and Costs

The vessels were repaired and partially calked, the sails were mended, the rigging, which had been a good deal strained, was overhauled and repaired, and all was soon ready for sea again. Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part 2. The Great Navigators of the Eighteenth Century

On deck they built sections of bulkhead, and he went down and groped in the murky water, and spiked the braces and set those sections and calked the spaces between bulkhead and hull. Blow The Man Down A Romance Of The Coast - 1916

Upon the latter island, whilst the ships were being repaired and calked, several affrays with the natives occurred, in which some prisoners were made. Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part I. The Exploration of the World

The planks are jointed at the edges so as to fit close, and the spaces between are stuffed with oakum, which is called calking. The Boat Club or, The Bunkers of Rippleton

The tree furnishes a viscid juice containing caoutchouc, which is used as glue for calking canoes. Catalogue of Economic Plants in the Collection of the U. S. Department of Agriculture

It is already very cold, but we have calked the doors and windows as one calks a boat, and have laid in a store of extraordinary garments made by the Canadian Indians. The Life of Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson

The buildings were calked on the outside and hung with furs within. A Little Girl in Old Quebec

And then, before you knew it, you were hauling out your fishing tackle and looking over your flies; inspecting the old dory and calking her seams with a coat of fresh paint. Walter and the Wireless

I then came to Cincinnati again, where I met my brother Paul, who was working at calking steamboats. Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi

A bland oil is pressed from the seeds, which is used by artists, and at Para the fibrous bark of the tree is used for calking ships, as a substitute for oakum. Catalogue of Economic Plants in the Collection of the U. S. Department of Agriculture

A mellow clack of calking hammers rang across the water. The Best Short Stories of 1919 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story

Leave the quarters long, shorten the toe, give the shoe rolling motion, and either put short heel calks on the branches or thicken the branches. Special Report on Diseases of the Horse

And now Blunt, my boy, that you’ve calked your first nail-head, I insist upon a bumper all round to that sweetheart you were just talking of!” Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver

After shoving my calking tools into the river, I went to keeping a "Rondo" game for Daniel and Joseph Smith, up on Fifth Street, at $18 per week. Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi

When dry it forms a dark varnish, and among other purposes it is employed, mixed with pitch and tar, in the calking of ships. Catalogue of Economic Plants in the Collection of the U. S. Department of Agriculture

The ship had just been pumped full of water, and now the calking gang were going round staring up with open mouths to see where the water came out. The Best Short Stories of 1919 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story

For the hind feet a long-heeled shoe with calks seems to do best. Special Report on Diseases of the Horse

In the Goodenough shoe, the calks are supplied, and the weight so distributed that the objection to the old method does not exist. Rational Horse-Shoeing

Oh, yes; the sixty centuries of the world's history have never had so much involved in the arrival of any ship at any port as in the landing of that papyrus boat calked with bitumen. The Wedding Ring A Series of Discourses for Husbands and Wives and Those Contemplating Matrimony

A woolly kind of scurf, scraped off the leaf stalks, is used for calking boats, and the stem furnishes a small quantity of wood. Catalogue of Economic Plants in the Collection of the U. S. Department of Agriculture

The calk of the iron shoe was left sticking in the barn door. Old Rail Fence Corners The A. B. C's. of Minnesota History

Horses wearing shoes with sharp calks are liable to wounds of the coronary region, either from trampling on themselves or on each other. Special Report on Diseases of the Horse

They furnish alpenstocks, ropes, and calks for the shoes of climbers at a reasonable charge. The Mountain that was 'God' Being a Little Book About the Great Peak Which the Indians Named 'Tacoma' but Which is Officially Called 'Rainier'

In Winter, the outside doors, opening to the piazzas, should be fastened and calked, and the side entry, at d, be used. A Treatise on Domestic Economy For the Use of Young Ladies at Home and at School

To calk the seams, the men had to climb thousands of feet to get resin from some stunted pine tree. Story Hour Readings: Seventh Year

This was a boat so carelessly constructed that the calking of the seams had been done with a blunt iron. South American Fights and Fighters And Other Tales of Adventure

Causes.—Injuries to the coronet, such as bruises, overreaching, and calk wounds, are considered as the common causes of this disease. Special Report on Diseases of the Horse

So by common consent we agreed to careen our ships on the beach in order to calk and pitch them anew, as they leaked badly, and then to return to Spain. Amerigo Vespucci

Worst of all, in getting on his feet one morning, Silver barked the skin with a rap from his toe calks. Horses Nine Stories of Harness and Saddle

Moss and clay were used as calking above water. Vikings of the Pacific The Adventures of the Explorers who Came from the West, Eastward

The tides of June being higher than usual they had little trouble, but it took days to calk the seams and put the schooner in shape for the trip. Where the Sun Swings North

Such a practice will render unnecessary the widespread and popular fad of giving the outer quarter and heel calk of hind shoes an extreme outward bend. Special Report on Diseases of the Horse

It hasn't been used for some years, and is apt to be in poor shape, but I've got some oakum and a calking tool. The Outdoor Chums at Cabin Point or The Golden Cup Mystery

Either the heel or the toe calks must find a crevice somewhere. Horses Nine Stories of Harness and Saddle

The upper part was calked with tallow of the sea-cow, the under with tar from the old hull. Vikings of the Pacific The Adventures of the Explorers who Came from the West, Eastward

At length the boat was calked, tarred, and painted. Alec Forbes of Howglen

The inner, nailless branch has the thickness of the outer branch plus its calk, so that the inner and outer quarters of the hoof are equidistant from the ground. Special Report on Diseases of the Horse

I calked the seams the best way I could, but the wood's a bit rotten, and there's always danger that the oakum may work loose. The Outdoor Chums at Cabin Point or The Golden Cup Mystery

But when it comes to wet asphalt—your calks will not help you134 there. Horses Nine Stories of Harness and Saddle

Hot seal oil and tallow poured over the seams and cracks, calked the leaks. Vikings of the Pacific The Adventures of the Explorers who Came from the West, Eastward

Every open seam had been calked, and a heavy coat of 94 paint had been put upon it. Fighting for the Right

Note the short shoe, heel calks inclined forward, and the rolled toe. Special Report on Diseases of the Horse

They had taken great pains this time, and felt sure the calking was there to stay. The Outdoor Chums at Cabin Point or The Golden Cup Mystery

Our first care was to make good any defects in our boat: some leaks were stopped by a little calking and pitching. Famous Adventures And Prison Escapes of the Civil War

Instead of tar, moss and clay and the tallow of sea animals calked the seams. Vikings of the Pacific The Adventures of the Explorers who Came from the West, Eastward

Monday, 7th of January This day the Admiral took the opportunity of calking the caravel, and the sailors were sent to cut wood. The Northmen, Columbus and Cabot, 985-1503

Note the elevation of the short toe by means of a toe calk and the projection of the toe beyond the shoe. Special Report on Diseases of the Horse

His skin was that of an old roué's, patched up and calked, but the features were those of a once handsome man of style and carriage. Tales of the Chesapeake

Those not able to do hard work stripped palmetto leaves to use in the place of tow for calking and rigging. Days of the Discoverers

From time immemorial, he says, the system of landing and embarking passengers and cargo has been by means of native Massulah boats, constructed of mango wood, calked with straw, and sewn together with cocoa-nut fibre. The Story of Ida Pfeiffer and Her Travels in Many Lands

The best way is to use four-inch cast iron pipe, calking all joints with oakum and lead. If You're Going to Live in the Country

When such a hoof has grown more toe, the toe calk can be dispensed with and the shoe set farther forward. Special Report on Diseases of the Horse

I took moss from my pocket and calked a seam with some precision. Montlivet

A Greek named Don Theodoro knew how to make pitch for the calking, from pine resin. Days of the Discoverers

I was looking at the holes the calks of Old Blacky's shoes made in the wagon-box last night, and they are shallow and irregular. The Voyage of the Rattletrap

If so, make them tight with batten strips or, if very loose, calk them with oakum. If You're Going to Live in the Country

Among the fatal cases are the open joints with complications as severed tendons, those occasioned by calk wounds in horses that are stabled, and nail punctures of the feet. Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1

They killed our master and two sailors, and our men killed the enemy’s captain and many of their men, while the ship was so hardly used that it would have sunk but for the calking. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 22 of 55 1625-29 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century.

Many shoes have both toe and heel calks, and in most examples the calks are well worn. New Discoveries at Jamestown Site of the First Successful English Settlement in America

They make honey from this tree; also oakum with which to calk ships, which lasts in the water, when that from here would rot. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 19 of 55 1620-1621 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century.

They felled the trees to make planks, moss served for calking, and their shirts and bedding for sails, while their Indian friends supplied cordage. Great Epochs in American History, Vol. II The Planting Of The First Colonies: 1562—1733

Treatment.—There is little if anything to be done in case the cartilage has become ossified except to shoe without high calks but preferably with rubber pads. Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1

"Must have slipped somewhere and 'calked' himself on the 'coronet,' I guess?" The Luck of the Mounted A Tale of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police

The coal-boat had just been launched, and George Hammond was standing on the bank superintending the calking of the seams which the water made visible. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 76, February, 1864

Already her seams, calked with moss and pitch, had opened in so many places that she leaked badly, and only constant labor at the pumps kept her afloat. The Flamingo Feather

By this time our shipmasters had unloaded the goods and victuals of the planters and taken wood and fresh water, and were newly calking and trimming their vessels for their return to England. Great Epochs in American History, Vol. II The Planting Of The First Colonies: 1562—1733

By keeping the heels as low as possible and shoeing without heel calks a more comfortable position is made possible. Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1

"Talking about 'calks'!" he remarked; and diving into the deep recesses of his fur coat he produced a comfortable-looking leather-encased flask. The Luck of the Mounted A Tale of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police

This style of calking puts a positive strain upon the rivets, commencing distortion and putting excessive stress upon rivets—already in high tension before the boiler is put in actual use. Scientific American Supplement, No. 810, July 11, 1891

Aside from the peculiar shaped nail holes, the characteristic of the Hunish shoe consists in the changes of the calks for summer and winter shoeing, as well as in the sinking of the nail heads. Scientific American Supplement No. 819, September 12, 1891

The building was water-tight, and he had calked every crevice with unraveled rope until Iris's apartment was free from the tiniest draught. The Wings of the Morning

On city streets, horses shod with shoes having long calks get caught in frogs of street railways or by slipping on rails, and phalangeal bones are often broken. Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1

"A little 'calk' all round won't hurt us after that tramp, Sergeant!" he observed kindly. The Luck of the Mounted A Tale of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police

There is but little need of calking if means are taken to secure a clean metal-to-metal face at the joint surfaces. Scientific American Supplement, No. 810, July 11, 1891

Sometimes both shanks were sharpened in this way, or were provided with blade-shaped calks well set forward. Scientific American Supplement No. 819, September 12, 1891

Lumber, rope, nails, and cotton for calking were bought in large quantities, and on the banks of the Des Moines was inaugurated a tremendous era of shipbuilding. The Road

The subject may be shod later, with heel calks that raise the heel moderately and a protracted period of rest should be enforced. Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1

I didn't draw the calks for I exercised 'er each d'y, I did. Betty Gordon at Mountain Camp

It was a basin of motionless green water, held in the curve of a shore shaped like a horseshoe, with two huge headlands of rock for the calks. White Shadows in the South Seas

The calks were next placed forward, perhaps from an uncultivated sense of beauty, or from the high bending up of the hind part of the shoe, which would necessitate a high and heavy unsightly calk. Scientific American Supplement No. 819, September 12, 1891

Their ideal winter sport so far is to calk up every chink in the bunk house, fill the air-tight stove full of pitch pine and set down with a good book by Elinor Glyn. Ma Pettengill

When animals are excited and in turning crowd one another, they often perform dancing movements which frequently result in deep calk wounds of the coronet. Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1

But her sharpened calks gave her a grip on the frozen snow that the wise mare quickly understood. Betty Gordon at Mountain Camp

We became very diligent in getting in our night wood, and in gathering more boughs to calk up the openings in the hut. In the Catskills Selections from the Writings of John Burroughs

Also, the calks in England, as well as in the southern countries, on the same ground, therefore, with good reason, could at no time be adopted. Scientific American Supplement No. 819, September 12, 1891

Some of the lead joints leaked slightly at first, but this was soon remedied by more careful calking. Scientific American Supplement, No. 455, September 20, 1884

In some instances, the pastern joint is opened by calk wounds and then, of course, an infectious arthritis succeeds the injury. Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1

Her calks threw bits of ice-crust behind her, and she never slipped nor slid. Betty Gordon at Mountain Camp

Second quality of iron, poor hanging, insufficient calking, careless mechanics, putty, cement, rag, or paper joints—all these and a dozen other things are liable to be sources of trouble. Scientific American Supplement, No. 484, April 11, 1885

This did, however, not interfere with the use of the calk in the colder south Germany, where after a use of nearly 1,500 years it has maintained its local and climatic adaptation. Scientific American Supplement No. 819, September 12, 1891

At one landing I found a man preparing his house for winter by calking the seams with moss. Overland through Asia; Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar Life

Moreover, the shoe with its calks increases the length of the leg and adds to the leverage on the hock, by virtue of such added length. Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1

The roan was heavy footed, and his shoes, too, were calked. Betty Gordon at Mountain Camp

Having obtained a satisfactory lot of soil pipe and fittings, the next trouble comes with the lead calking. Scientific American Supplement, No. 484, April 11, 1885

These shoes, covering the margin or wall of the foot, show slight traces of having been beveled on the lower surface, and contain two bent calks very superficially placed. Scientific American Supplement No. 819, September 12, 1891

Dirty Dan leaped high in the air and came down with both terrible calked boots on something which gave slightly under him and moaned. Kindred of the Dust

Morbific material is introduced into the region of the lateral cartilage by means of calk wounds and other penetrant injuries of the foot. Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1

Returning to Pondicherry, D'Aché found that, though the injuries to the masts and rigging could for this time be repaired, there was lack of provisions, and that the ships needed calking. The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783

Incidentally it may be remarked that it is quite difficult to calk a tight joint on the heavy pipe; the process will crack the hub. Scientific American Supplement, No. 484, April 11, 1885

The shoe was remarkably narrow at the heel, and was supplied with calks, which accounts for the highness of the back part of the shoe. Scientific American Supplement No. 819, September 12, 1891

In genuine ship-building, calking consists in crowding threads of this material with great force into the seams between the planks. Apples, Ripe and Rosy, Sir

The heel is raised by means of a shoe with moderately high heel calks. Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1

It is probable too, I think, that in both articles Skinner refers, by mistake, to a line of the Frankelein's tale, which in the common editions stands thus: "Ful subtelly he had calked al this." The Rowley Poems

I could speedily bring them to a just sense of their nothingness, unless their ears were calked and pitched, although I am no Savonarola. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 329, March, 1843

The turret and sight-holes were calked, and every possible, entrance for water made secure, only the smallest openings being left in the turret-top, and the blower-stacks, through which the ship was ventilated. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 65, March, 1863

Then I telegraphed Con Foster to have me a buggy and a minister ready for the three o'clock train, and to keep his yawp calked up. Mr. Scraggs

When this was done, he went to work on the lighter, which was leaky, and bailed it out, and calked the seams, taking plenty of time, and doing his work in the most thorough manner. The Adventures of Captain Horn

Nothing broke the silence but the concert of frogs, which Cameron compares with the noise of calkers calking a ship; with riveters who rivet, and the drillers who drill, in a shipbuilder's yard. Dick Sand A Captain at Fifteen

They also concluded to have the boat taken out of the water and thoroughly calked again, and her bottom payed over with pitch, as she was not perfectly tight. Marco Paul's Voyages and Travels; Vermont

The whole deck was then carefully calked and the sides made watertight with Portland cement. Scientific American Supplement, No. 799, April 25, 1891

Her topsides were foul, her decks splintered by the tramping of calked boots, grimy with soot and cinders. Big Timber A Story of the Northwest

Then remove the expander, and you are ready for your header or calking tool. Rough and Tumble Engineering

And many hours more, day by day, he dragged himself around it, lying on his side to calk the gaping seams with moss. Burning Daylight

She rested safely now upon an even keel; nor did she leak, for she was well calked with fiber and tarry pitch. Pellucidar

Then it was decided to take part of the cargo out and calk her topsides. Youth, a Narrative

Splinters flew where the sharp calks bit into the wharf planking, and his companions applauded. Big Timber A Story of the Northwest

The header is used by placing the gauge or guide end within the flue, and with your light hammer the flue can be calked or beaded down against the flue sheet. Rough and Tumble Engineering

Finding my trade of no immediate benefit, I threw off my calking habiliments, and prepared myself to do any kind of work I could get to do. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

But Frederick Douglass was still calking the seams of Baltimore clippers, and had only written a "pass," at the age when Miller's style was already formed. My Bondage and My Freedom

We had stripped her to her girt-lines, calked her, decks and all, from her hold up, and painted her inside and out. The Mutineers

They were prototypes of the rude crew but now departed, brown-faced, flannel-shirted, shod with calked boots, unshaven for days, typical men of the woods. Big Timber A Story of the Northwest

Having thus calked my Dog-Talk—bark, in fact—with this very tough bit of yarn, I now trustfully commit it to the mercies of the "Atlantic." The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 25, November, 1859

This, with the wear and tear of clothing and calking tools, made my regular expenses about six dollars per week. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

I was placed here to learn to calk, a trade of which I already had some knowledge, gained while in Mr. Hugh Auld's ship-yard, when he was a master builder. My Bondage and My Freedom

Pronounce: Darius; aspiring; genius; awry; grimace; droll; Daedalus; Icarus; almanacs; phoebe; calked; breeches; accoutered; pagans; jaunty; stanched. The Elson Readers, Book 5

He wore evening clothes when occasion required as unconcernedly as he wore mackinaws and calked boots among his loggers. Big Timber A Story of the Northwest

Although while in port her bottom had been calked and graved, the leak, which gave so much trouble the previous voyage, had not been stopped. Jack in the Forecastle or, Incidents in the Early Life of Hawser Martingale

When I could get no calking to do, I did nothing. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

Here I rapidly became expert in the use of my calking tools; and, in the course of a single year, I was able to command the highest wages paid to journeymen calkers in Baltimore. My Bondage and My Freedom

All the calking, however, had become loose, and the seams gaped widely. Cord and Creese

Why not riprap the skirt, calk the solvages, readjust the box plaits, cat stitch the crown sheet, file down the gores, sandpaper the gaiters and discharge the dolman. Remarks

The round, unhewn logs showed their form everywhere; the crevices were calked with moss; and the walls were warm and tight. A Modern Instance

I was put there to learn how to calk. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

After learning to calk, I sought my own employment, made my own contracts, and collected my own earnings; giving Master Hugh no trouble in any part of the transactions to which I was a party. My Bondage and My Freedom

When I reached the deck, I saw no one but a large man in a large dripping pea-jacket, who was calking down the main-hatches. Redburn. His First Voyage

Our boats are leaking again, from the strains received in the bad rapids yesterday, so after dinner they are turned over and some of the men calk them. Canyons of the Colorado

As these are not completely filled by the rattan, they are plugged with fibre and calked with damar to prevent leakage. Through Central Borneo; an Account of Two Years' Travel in the Land of Head-Hunters Between the Years 1913 and 1917

After learning how to calk, I sought my own employment, made my own contracts, and collected the money which I earned. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

All who are acquainted with calking, know how uncertain and irregular that employment is. My Bondage and My Freedom

Cawk; calk; to set on a horse's shoes sharp points of iron to prevent slipping on ice. The Dialect of the West of England; Particularly Somersetshire

Let the shoes be as light as possible, and without calks if it can be afforded, as the mule always travels unsteady on them. The Mule A Treatise on the Breeding, Training, and Uses to Which He May Be Put

There was a gap in the horseshoe where the calk should have been. Paths of Glory Impressions of War Written at and Near the Front

There I was immediately set to calking, and very soon learned the art of using my mallet and irons. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

Having finished this job and got my pay for the same, I went next in pursuit of a job at calking. My Bondage and My Freedom

If incisions are made in the stems of the trees, an abundant pleasant-smelling white resin flows from them, which is largely used in the Philippines to calk ships with. The Former Philippines thru Foreign Eyes

The Goodenough shoe is far superior to the old calked shoe, and will answer every purpose where holding is necessary. The Mule A Treatise on the Breeding, Training, and Uses to Which He May Be Put

"Junk," old rope, is from the Latin juncus, a bulrush,—the material used along the Mediterranean shore for calking; "oakum," from the Saxon oecumbe, or hemp. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 12, October, 1858

These frosts were what had been called on horses, "frost nails," or calks. Two Centuries of Costume in America, Volume 1 (1620-1820)

Then they loaded it again with its stores, and transshipped to it the stores of the other ship, upon which they executed the before-mentioned calking and repairs, so that it became like new. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 08 The Later Renaissance: from Gutenberg to the Reformation

The carpenter's gang then set to work to calk the hole temporarily. The Boy Aviators' Polar Dash or Facing Death in the Antarctic

It is also good in mountainous countries, and there is no danger of the animal calking himself with it. The Mule A Treatise on the Breeding, Training, and Uses to Which He May Be Put

The seams were calked with the moss that hung in clusters from the branches, and then smeared with pitch from the pines. A Brief History of the United States

On Cuba the boats were calked and scraped, and the Admiral superintended the operations. Christopher Columbus

It was a worth-while sight to see them strike their calks into the ice and brace themselves against the shock which they clearly expected when the cutter started to skid. Over Prairie Trails

"We'll calk her at low tide," George declared, well satisfied at this outcome of the misadventure. The Silver Horde

Her under planking was nicely joined, and the seams calked with cotton wicking, and afterwards filled with white-lead paint and putty. Four Months in a Sneak-Box

The twelve feet of these three hosses have on 'em the finest calked shoes in all these mountains. The Guns of Shiloh A Story of the Great Western Campaign

Again Columbus proceeded with the familiar business of calking ships, buying provisions, and engaging a crew. Christopher Columbus

Put on heel calks one inch, no toe, to rest and relieve the back tendons from strain. One Thousand Questions in California Agriculture Answered

Old rags from the house and parts of the men's clothing supplied calking, upon which the tar was smeared. Rainbow's End

In silence the work was resumed, and later, when the boat had been divided, each man set about boarding up and calking the open end of his respective half. The Winds of Chance

"Then why in thunder, Blaze," exclaimed Whitley, "did we start without calks on the shoes of our horses?" The Guns of Shiloh A Story of the Great Western Campaign

On June 22d, while they were warming some pitch to calk the launch, it took fire, but was extinguished before great damage was done. The March of Portola and the Discovery of the Bay of San Francisco

Yensen looked up to reply, chanced to glance aft, and dropped his calking iron in his astonishment. Bar-20 Days

At nighttime the maid enters your room, seals the windows, pulls down the shades, locks the shutters, closes the curtains, draws the draperies—and then, I think, calks all the cracks with oakum. Europe Revised

As a result of the rainy week, the boat was finished, the seams were calked and pitched by Saturday night, and it was all ready to be launched on Monday. Wakulla: a story of adventure in Florida

The road down the mountain was also better than the one by which they had ascended, and as the horses with their calked shoes were swift of foot they made rapid progress. The Guns of Shiloh A Story of the Great Western Campaign

The wise beast dug his calked shoes through the deep slush and sprang for the bank, throwing himself into the collar at every leap. Maria Chapdelaine

While the oars were making, Powell and his brother climbed up to where some pinyon trees were seen growing, and collected a quantity of gum with which to calk the leaky boats. The Romance of the Colorado River The Story of its Discovery in 1840, with an Account of the Later Explorations, and with Special Reference to the Voyages of Powell through the Line of the Great Canyons

Wherever smoke was seen coming out, we calked and pasted and, so far as we could, made the ship smoke tight. Two Years Before the Mast

Freed from the treetop, however, and calked with a little moss, it floated with two aboard, which was quite enough for our purpose. Wake-Robin

Immediately another, jumping on Shock's prostrate form, began kicking him savagely with his heavy calked boots. The Prospector

Twenty-four hours to sharpen their horses' calks and tighten up their cinches, and Irvine was on the trail again en route for Fort Carlton, where he learned serious disturbances were threatening. The Patrol of the Sun Dance Trail

It proved that not only the seams had to be calked but that the cog Thomas was out of fresh water. Sir Nigel

The boy sprang from log to log, the calks making the chips fly, and with a canthook pushed off a log that had caught and swung upon a small bank. Nan Sherwood at Pine Camp or, the Old Lumberman's Secret

The port had been carefully barred and calked over. The After House

Wherever smoke was seen coming out, we calked and pasted, and, so far as we could, made the ship smoke tight. Two Years Before the Mast

They're like leaky boats—calking, patching, pumping, night and day and all the time. The Valley of the Moon

And these few days it was necessary to employ in planking and carefully calking the vessel, and launching her. The Mysterious Island

He thrust the calks on his bootsoles into the log and the shreds of bark and small chips flew as he stamped to get a secure footing for his work. Nan Sherwood at Pine Camp or, the Old Lumberman's Secret

The carpenter was engaged constantly in attempting to locate such places, and, when he succeeded, in calking them tighter and tighter. South Sea Tales

Our forty thousand hides, thirty thousand horns, besides several barrels of otter and beaver skins, were all stowed below, and the hatches calked down. Two Years Before the Mast

Following the housewarming, which was accomplished by means of seal-oil and a wick made from cotton calking, came the hunting for our winter’s meat and the building of the second hut. The Sea Wolf

The colonists were driven to their last entrenchment, and although the upper seams of the vessel were not yet calked, they decided to launch her at once. The Mysterious Island

单词	calk
例句	calk The carpenter is going to set a post under it in the lower deck, and calk the leaky upper parts, and so we shall go on to America. A Pilgrim Maid A Story of Plymouth Colony in 1620 2012-04-02T02:00:24.090Z The load sank the weak scow so deeply that the water ran into cracks in her side, despite their calking; and as they were afraid to embark the whole expedition, two trips were made. The Ice Queen 2012-03-22T02:00:40.843Z Also the house has to be "calked" occasionally to keep out draughts and more particularly creeping enemies of the hive, like bee-moths and bee-lice. Insect Stories 2012-03-21T02:00:36.600Z Indeed, he made it in broad daylight, with Barnes not a hundred yards away, calking a dory whose seams had sprung a leak. The Million Dollar Mystery Novelized from the Scenario of F. Lonergan 2012-03-15T02:00:21.153Z The floor itself was calked with plaster of Paris and common paste, then two inches of Manilla oakum was thrown over it, and upon this a canvas carpet was spread. North-Pole Voyages 2012-03-01T03:00:27.283Z In some of the houses were whale-boats, that had been hauled up to be calked and painted, that the men were preparing to launch. Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast 2012-02-22T03:00:25.113Z They calked it with cotton; the natives supplied pitch; and in thirty-five days the vessel was launched. Oregon and Eldorado or, Romance of the Rivers 2012-02-07T03:00:09.010Z The first, which is less hard, is used for tinder when dried; also for the rigging and smaller cordage of the ships, or as tow for calking them. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 29 of 55 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century 2012-02-03T03:00:18.817Z By help of Mr. Ruggles, employment at calking was obtained in New Bedford, a large town in Massachusetts, where a great many ships are constantly employed. The Freedmen's Book 2012-01-05T03:00:39.763Z The next day they drew their leaking crafts ashore, and calked them for another sea adventure. North-Pole Voyages 2012-03-01T03:00:27.283Z Some were covered with boughs, their winter protection; others were being patched, painted, or calked, preparatory for launching, with an assiduity and solicitude that can only be appreciated by the owners of such craft. Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast 2012-02-22T03:00:25.113Z So the ships were got ready for Bres; abundant food and drink and war stores were put into them, their seams were calked with pitch, and they were filled with sweet-smelling frankincense. Old Celtic Romances 2011-11-19T03:00:26.863Z The crevices between the logs constituting the walls are tightly calked with moss gathered from surrounding trees. Forest Life and Forest Trees: comprising winter camp-life among the loggers, and wild-wood adventure. with Descriptions of lumbering operations on the various rivers of Maine and New Brunswick 2011-10-11T02:01:03.847Z When he returned to Baltimore he was let out to work at calking vessels; and he soon became so expert at the business that he earned from seven to nine dollars a week. The Freedmen's Book 2012-01-05T03:00:39.763Z Afterwards I helped to careen the Ships, to refit them, and to calk them. The Travels and Adventures of James Massey 2011-09-13T02:00:31.293Z Listen now, and calk these names into yourself if your head is not able to hold them. The Deluge, Vol. I. (of 2) An Historical Novel of Poland, Sweden, and Russia. 2011-08-26T02:00:24.433Z “Throw ’em in!” snapped Reivers, and the handlers thrust the three combatants, stripped to the waists but wearing calked lumberjack shoes, through the ropes. The Snow-Burner 2011-05-17T02:00:21.527Z "The knee acted up and then the Achilles followed after that, and then the calk started cramping up," Woods said. Tiger Woods withdraws from Players after 9 holes 2011-05-12T14:47:13Z We want her sides calked with oakum, an' well scraped an' painted, so that with water inside of her or outside of her she won't leak. The Casting Away of Mrs. Lecks and Mrs. Aleshine 2011-03-15T02:00:14.097Z We all then went to calking up and painting our boats, which was no small job for us, for we knew nothing about a boat. Adventures in the Canyons of the Colorado By two of its earliest explorers 2011-03-08T03:00:36.293Z In such a climate as that of Africa a canoe cracks, and for want of calking it often becomes so leaky as to require constant baling. The World and Its People: Book VII Views in Africa 2011-02-13T03:00:17.920Z A few days of pleasant weather were occupied in calking the decks. Cruise and Captures of the Alabama 2011-01-30T03:00:18.733Z Never a word said the young riverman as he turned and clattered down the trail, his calked boots rasping on the pebbles. Lost Farm Camp 2011-01-23T03:00:16.437Z And because there was not enough of it, they calked them with the flax of the country, and with the mantles, which they raveled for that purpose. A Narrative of the expedition of Hernando de Soto into Florida published at Evora in 1557 2011-01-20T03:00:07.377Z Powell got a man discharged out of the army at Fort Bridger to come and show us how to calk the boats. Adventures in the Canyons of the Colorado By two of its earliest explorers 2011-03-08T03:00:36.293Z Oh, here I come from the Kay-ni-beck, With my old calk boots slung round my neck Here we come—yas, a-here we come— A hundred men and a jug of rum. King Spruce, A Novel 2011-01-15T03:00:34.400Z To begin, it had two very essential qualities—it was strongly made and it was well calked throughout. The Red Miriok 2011-01-04T03:01:16.847Z She drew quickly back, however, as the crunch of calked boots sounded on the porch. Lost Farm Camp 2011-01-23T03:00:16.437Z My first impulse was to calk up the throat of M. Mondet with several sheets of his abominable assurances. She Buildeth Her House 2011-01-04T03:01:05.167Z Not at all unlikely," replied I quietly; "we had a fire below when we were calking the seams of the pinnace. The Swiss Family Robinson or, Adventures on a Desert Island 2011-01-03T03:01:03.473Z Mindful of the State law that forbade the wearing of calked boots on board a railroad train, the men who owned only that sort of footgear were in their stocking feet. King Spruce, A Novel 2011-01-15T03:00:34.400Z They spent part of the day in calking the open seams with grass and the bark of trees, and in the afternoon embarked in the crazy craft and sought the shore. Vasco Nu?ez de Balboa 2011-01-02T03:00:18.200Z "If we stay here long enough we must calk the seams," Jim said as he wiped the perspiration from his face. A Runaway Brig; or, An Accidental Cruise 2011-01-02T03:00:16.390Z The instant she felt her calks bite into the frosty turf, the mare flirted her head, took the bit, and became a veritable glowing battery of beautiful energy. She Buildeth Her House 2011-01-04T03:01:05.167Z Seams were being calked, there was painting and oiling going on from day to day. A Child of the Sea; and Life Among the Mormons 2010-12-30T03:00:27.140Z Three leaps, his calk boots biting the logs, put Tommy out of sight behind the pile. King Spruce, A Novel 2011-01-15T03:00:34.400Z Both mules had new calks on their shoes, and that would give them better footing in snow. The Lost Wagon 2010-12-20T17:12:36.807Z Cracks between the logs were calked with dry moss. Camping at Cherry Pond 2010-12-20T17:12:23.997Z Come on! let’s hurl ivery bit o’ calk out o’ the pit.” The Parson O' Dumford The layer of wax we scraped carefully off and found it most satisfactory for calking our leaky kayaks. Farthest North Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship 'Fram' 1893-1896 The calking was all done from the inside. Fifty Years a Hunter and Trapper Autobiography, experiences and observations of Eldred Nathaniel Woodcock during his fifty years of hunting and trapping. The fiber of the husk is used extensively by the natives for calking boats. The Cocoanut With reference to its products and cultivation in the Philippines The steel toe calk is welded in, the ends are bent to form the heels, the holes for nails are punctured, the shoe taking an occasional plunge into the flames during these processes. Landseer A collection of fifteen pictures and a portrait of the painter with introduction and interpretation Where there are any knee openings, if the deck is painted, calk them with cotton, if varnished, fill them with putty. Harper's Round Table, September 3, 1895 Our preparations consisted, first and foremost, in carefully calking the seams of our kayaks by melting stearine over them, and then restowing the cargo so as to leave room for us to sit in them. Farthest North Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship 'Fram' 1893-1896 After the chinking and calking was done, we dug into a clay bank and got clay, which we mixed with ashes taken from the fire then added sufficient water to make a rather stiff mortar. Fifty Years a Hunter and Trapper Autobiography, experiences and observations of Eldred Nathaniel Woodcock during his fifty years of hunting and trapping. Having next made sure that she was well calked and dry, I led the se�or through the house. A Volunteer with Pike The True Narrative of One Dr. John Robinson and of His Love for the Fair Señorita Vallois The sturdy mariner repaired, calked, and refloated the damaged ship of the Church. Anatole France The Revolt of the Angels Do not attempt to calk her in this condition, for if you should, you would run a good risk upon the boards swelling of badly warping the planking. Harper's Round Table, September 3, 1895 We work in an intermittent way at the kayak grips of wood for our sledges, and at calking and painting our kayaks to make them water-tight. Farthest North Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship 'Fram' 1893-1896 When Mr. Harris returned I had the roof on, the chinking all in and the gable end boarded up with shakes and all ready to begin calking and mudding. Fifty Years a Hunter and Trapper Autobiography, experiences and observations of Eldred Nathaniel Woodcock during his fifty years of hunting and trapping. If his neighbor's tub leaked, it was his neighbor's fault for not keeping it calked. The Vision of Elijah Berl I got in, and the conscious waters immediately began vigorously spurting through the cotton wadding wherewith the craft was calked. With the World's Great Travellers, Volume 1 The lining inside the frame timbers is of pitch-pine planks, some 4, some 8 inches thick; it was also carefully calked once or twice. Farthest North Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship 'Fram' 1893-1896 Vol. I Old Christian sprung the calks on the horn of the anvil, and returned the shoe. Dwellers in the Hills The second day after we got into the woods we had the camp in pretty good shape, well chinked and calked. Fifty Years a Hunter and Trapper Autobiography, experiences and observations of Eldred Nathaniel Woodcock during his fifty years of hunting and trapping. If the cracks between cover and jar still remain, calk them with asbestos packing, tow, or ordinary wrapping string. The Automobile Storage Battery Its Care And Repair After the lead cools, it must be expanded or calked by driving the calking tool hard against it. Rural Hygiene We found that some emigrants had calked two wagon beds and lashed them together, and were using this craft for crossing. Ox-Team Days on the Oregon Trail The hunchback thrust his hand between the calks, raised the shoe and squinted along its surface to see if it were entirely level. Dwellers in the Hills Then we replaced the chinkings that the porcupines had gnawed out, calked and mudded all cracks. Fifty Years a Hunter and Trapper Autobiography, experiences and observations of Eldred Nathaniel Woodcock during his fifty years of hunting and trapping. But then the boat was done, and there was no other calking at the moment along the whole harbor front, except some that was being done on a ship by her own sailors. Dr. Sevier The day was devoted to calking the launch, repairing it, and the next day, July 24th, they put out to sea again. The Voyages and Adventures of Captain Hatteras Old chisels and broken knives were hunted up, and a boat repairing and calking campaign began. Ox-Team Days on the Oregon Trail Ump explored El Mahdi's shoes, pulled at the calks, picked at the nails, and prodded into the frog of the foot to see if there was any tendency to gravel. Dwellers in the Hills Yes, I always chunk well and calk good with moss before I mud it, then you have a good warm camp. Fifty Years a Hunter and Trapper Autobiography, experiences and observations of Eldred Nathaniel Woodcock during his fifty years of hunting and trapping. Then, when she was planked up, with a gunwale on, and half-decked over forward, she was calked, and the seams payed with pitch. Captain Brand of the "Centipede" A Pirate of Eminence in the West Indies: His Love and Exploits, Together with Some Account of the Singular Manner by Which He Departed This Life I spent some time calking up cracks around the windows, where the snow blew in. Track's End Being the Narrative of Judson Pitcher's Strange Winter Spent There As Told by Himself and Edited by Hayden Carruth Including an Accurate Account of His Numerous Adventures, and the Facts Concerning His Several Surprising Escapes from Death Now First Printed in Full The men took tallow and oakum and roughly calked the seams of this boat, so that it was possible to get it across the river to Fort Smith eventually. Young Alaskans in the Far North At the foot of the hill as we came up, the Cardinal caught a stone between the calks of one of his hind shoes, and Jud got off to pry it out. Dwellers in the Hills We put in two days cutting wood and calking and mudding the shanty wherever the chinking and mud had been worked out by squirrels and other small animals. Fifty Years a Hunter and Trapper Autobiography, experiences and observations of Eldred Nathaniel Woodcock during his fifty years of hunting and trapping. A couple of white men were calking a large ferry-boat, but as it was not yet seaworthy and as they had no cable, the horses must swim. The Trail of the Goldseekers A Record of Travel in Prose and Verse But as for me, I’m like an old horse-shoe with its calks worn off. The Prairie Child It is also used extensively for calking vessels, making waterproof roofs, lining cold storage plants, making varnishes as well as shoe blacking as well as in a hundred other ways. Birdseye Views of Far Lands When the logs meet the rafter pole all the cracks are chinked up with small pieces of wood and the crevices calked with moss. Shelters, Shacks and Shanties House Sewers.—Where the ground is "made," or filled in, the house sewer must be made of cast iron, with the joints properly calked with lead. The Home Medical Library, Volume V (of VI) The calking completed, reported ourselves at Macào; but no Commodore appearing, and our coppers being worn out, went over to Hong-Kong to get them repaired. Kathay: A Cruise in the China Seas Leo, who had been examining his boat, which he had drawn up on the beach to dry overnight, now asked a little time to calk a leak which he had discovered. The Young Alaskans in the Rockies When the groove has been filled the soft-iron pieces are calked or spread so as to hold the blades firmly in place. Steam Turbines A Book of Instruction for the Adjustment and Operation of the Principal Types of this Class of Prime Movers If the logs fit close together on the roof they may be calked with moss and dry grass. Shelters, Shacks and Shanties The remaining space is filled with hot molten lead, which, on cooling, is well rammed and calked in by special tools made for the purpose. The Home Medical Library, Volume V (of VI) Rolls of fat were tucked into every nook, jammed into every corner, calked into every crevice; and, at last, demanding place, they scandalously overflowed the apron. The Mother I’ve seen an oyster boat, that was leaking at every seam, calked and patched and painted to be good as new.” Killykinick We must try and calk up some of the open seams; but first we’ve got to get the water out of her.’ The Associate Hermits The leak in the Barracouta's bow was calked, making her as tight as before. Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good Workmen were swarming all over her like bees, hammering, calking, and painting, yet it was plain that they could not do in a week what needed a month to finish. The Windy Hill The calks in these climbing-irons were about an inch and a quarter long; we wished they had been two inches. The Ascent of Denali (Mount McKinley) A Narrative of the First Complete Ascent of the Highest Peak in North America But the sufferers from scurvy recovered in a short time, the sails were mended, and the vessel calked and repaired, and the crew had the unexpected good fortune of catching no fever. Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part 2. The Great Navigators of the Eighteenth Century This person was Arthur Raybold, who had found the bishop calking the boat, and as soon as this work was finished, had moodily declared that he would take a row in her. The Associate Hermits His fingers found what he wanted, an opening between two planks, where a leak had been freshly calked with oakum. Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good Our ship is badly out of trim; 'Tis time to calk and grave her; She's foul with stench of human gore; They've turned her to a slaver. In The Boyhood of Lincoln A Tale of the Tunker Schoolmaster and the Times of Black Hawk The joints below water were calked by divers and above water by masons, and a section was then grouted. Concrete Construction Methods and Costs The vessels were repaired and partially calked, the sails were mended, the rigging, which had been a good deal strained, was overhauled and repaired, and all was soon ready for sea again. Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part 2. The Great Navigators of the Eighteenth Century On deck they built sections of bulkhead, and he went down and groped in the murky water, and spiked the braces and set those sections and calked the spaces between bulkhead and hull. Blow The Man Down A Romance Of The Coast - 1916 Upon the latter island, whilst the ships were being repaired and calked, several affrays with the natives occurred, in which some prisoners were made. Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part I. The Exploration of the World The planks are jointed at the edges so as to fit close, and the spaces between are stuffed with oakum, which is called calking. The Boat Club or, The Bunkers of Rippleton The tree furnishes a viscid juice containing caoutchouc, which is used as glue for calking canoes. Catalogue of Economic Plants in the Collection of the U. S. Department of Agriculture It is already very cold, but we have calked the doors and windows as one calks a boat, and have laid in a store of extraordinary garments made by the Canadian Indians. The Life of Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson The buildings were calked on the outside and hung with furs within. A Little Girl in Old Quebec And then, before you knew it, you were hauling out your fishing tackle and looking over your flies; inspecting the old dory and calking her seams with a coat of fresh paint. Walter and the Wireless I then came to Cincinnati again, where I met my brother Paul, who was working at calking steamboats. Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi A bland oil is pressed from the seeds, which is used by artists, and at Para the fibrous bark of the tree is used for calking ships, as a substitute for oakum. Catalogue of Economic Plants in the Collection of the U. S. Department of Agriculture A mellow clack of calking hammers rang across the water. The Best Short Stories of 1919 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story Leave the quarters long, shorten the toe, give the shoe rolling motion, and either put short heel calks on the branches or thicken the branches. Special Report on Diseases of the Horse And now Blunt, my boy, that you’ve calked your first nail-head, I insist upon a bumper all round to that sweetheart you were just talking of!” Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver After shoving my calking tools into the river, I went to keeping a "Rondo" game for Daniel and Joseph Smith, up on Fifth Street, at $18 per week. Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi When dry it forms a dark varnish, and among other purposes it is employed, mixed with pitch and tar, in the calking of ships. Catalogue of Economic Plants in the Collection of the U. S. Department of Agriculture The ship had just been pumped full of water, and now the calking gang were going round staring up with open mouths to see where the water came out. The Best Short Stories of 1919 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story For the hind feet a long-heeled shoe with calks seems to do best. Special Report on Diseases of the Horse In the Goodenough shoe, the calks are supplied, and the weight so distributed that the objection to the old method does not exist. Rational Horse-Shoeing Oh, yes; the sixty centuries of the world's history have never had so much involved in the arrival of any ship at any port as in the landing of that papyrus boat calked with bitumen. The Wedding Ring A Series of Discourses for Husbands and Wives and Those Contemplating Matrimony A woolly kind of scurf, scraped off the leaf stalks, is used for calking boats, and the stem furnishes a small quantity of wood. Catalogue of Economic Plants in the Collection of the U. S. Department of Agriculture The calk of the iron shoe was left sticking in the barn door. Old Rail Fence Corners The A. B. C's. of Minnesota History Horses wearing shoes with sharp calks are liable to wounds of the coronary region, either from trampling on themselves or on each other. Special Report on Diseases of the Horse They furnish alpenstocks, ropes, and calks for the shoes of climbers at a reasonable charge. The Mountain that was 'God' Being a Little Book About the Great Peak Which the Indians Named 'Tacoma' but Which is Officially Called 'Rainier' In Winter, the outside doors, opening to the piazzas, should be fastened and calked, and the side entry, at d, be used. A Treatise on Domestic Economy For the Use of Young Ladies at Home and at School To calk the seams, the men had to climb thousands of feet to get resin from some stunted pine tree. Story Hour Readings: Seventh Year This was a boat so carelessly constructed that the calking of the seams had been done with a blunt iron. South American Fights and Fighters And Other Tales of Adventure Causes.—Injuries to the coronet, such as bruises, overreaching, and calk wounds, are considered as the common causes of this disease. Special Report on Diseases of the Horse So by common consent we agreed to careen our ships on the beach in order to calk and pitch them anew, as they leaked badly, and then to return to Spain. Amerigo Vespucci Worst of all, in getting on his feet one morning, Silver barked the skin with a rap from his toe calks. Horses Nine Stories of Harness and Saddle Moss and clay were used as calking above water. Vikings of the Pacific The Adventures of the Explorers who Came from the West, Eastward The tides of June being higher than usual they had little trouble, but it took days to calk the seams and put the schooner in shape for the trip. Where the Sun Swings North Such a practice will render unnecessary the widespread and popular fad of giving the outer quarter and heel calk of hind shoes an extreme outward bend. Special Report on Diseases of the Horse It hasn't been used for some years, and is apt to be in poor shape, but I've got some oakum and a calking tool. The Outdoor Chums at Cabin Point or The Golden Cup Mystery Either the heel or the toe calks must find a crevice somewhere. Horses Nine Stories of Harness and Saddle The upper part was calked with tallow of the sea-cow, the under with tar from the old hull. Vikings of the Pacific The Adventures of the Explorers who Came from the West, Eastward At length the boat was calked, tarred, and painted. Alec Forbes of Howglen The inner, nailless branch has the thickness of the outer branch plus its calk, so that the inner and outer quarters of the hoof are equidistant from the ground. Special Report on Diseases of the Horse I calked the seams the best way I could, but the wood's a bit rotten, and there's always danger that the oakum may work loose. The Outdoor Chums at Cabin Point or The Golden Cup Mystery But when it comes to wet asphalt—your calks will not help you134 there. Horses Nine Stories of Harness and Saddle Hot seal oil and tallow poured over the seams and cracks, calked the leaks. Vikings of the Pacific The Adventures of the Explorers who Came from the West, Eastward Every open seam had been calked, and a heavy coat of 94 paint had been put upon it. Fighting for the Right Note the short shoe, heel calks inclined forward, and the rolled toe. Special Report on Diseases of the Horse They had taken great pains this time, and felt sure the calking was there to stay. The Outdoor Chums at Cabin Point or The Golden Cup Mystery Our first care was to make good any defects in our boat: some leaks were stopped by a little calking and pitching. Famous Adventures And Prison Escapes of the Civil War Instead of tar, moss and clay and the tallow of sea animals calked the seams. Vikings of the Pacific The Adventures of the Explorers who Came from the West, Eastward Monday, 7th of January This day the Admiral took the opportunity of calking the caravel, and the sailors were sent to cut wood. The Northmen, Columbus and Cabot, 985-1503 Note the elevation of the short toe by means of a toe calk and the projection of the toe beyond the shoe. Special Report on Diseases of the Horse His skin was that of an old roué's, patched up and calked, but the features were those of a once handsome man of style and carriage. Tales of the Chesapeake Those not able to do hard work stripped palmetto leaves to use in the place of tow for calking and rigging. Days of the Discoverers From time immemorial, he says, the system of landing and embarking passengers and cargo has been by means of native Massulah boats, constructed of mango wood, calked with straw, and sewn together with cocoa-nut fibre. The Story of Ida Pfeiffer and Her Travels in Many Lands The best way is to use four-inch cast iron pipe, calking all joints with oakum and lead. If You're Going to Live in the Country When such a hoof has grown more toe, the toe calk can be dispensed with and the shoe set farther forward. Special Report on Diseases of the Horse I took moss from my pocket and calked a seam with some precision. Montlivet A Greek named Don Theodoro knew how to make pitch for the calking, from pine resin. Days of the Discoverers I was looking at the holes the calks of Old Blacky's shoes made in the wagon-box last night, and they are shallow and irregular. The Voyage of the Rattletrap If so, make them tight with batten strips or, if very loose, calk them with oakum. If You're Going to Live in the Country Among the fatal cases are the open joints with complications as severed tendons, those occasioned by calk wounds in horses that are stabled, and nail punctures of the feet. Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 They killed our master and two sailors, and our men killed the enemy’s captain and many of their men, while the ship was so hardly used that it would have sunk but for the calking. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 22 of 55 1625-29 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century. Many shoes have both toe and heel calks, and in most examples the calks are well worn. New Discoveries at Jamestown Site of the First Successful English Settlement in America They make honey from this tree; also oakum with which to calk ships, which lasts in the water, when that from here would rot. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 19 of 55 1620-1621 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century. They felled the trees to make planks, moss served for calking, and their shirts and bedding for sails, while their Indian friends supplied cordage. Great Epochs in American History, Vol. II The Planting Of The First Colonies: 1562—1733 Treatment.—There is little if anything to be done in case the cartilage has become ossified except to shoe without high calks but preferably with rubber pads. Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 "Must have slipped somewhere and 'calked' himself on the 'coronet,' I guess?" The Luck of the Mounted A Tale of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police The coal-boat had just been launched, and George Hammond was standing on the bank superintending the calking of the seams which the water made visible. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 76, February, 1864 Already her seams, calked with moss and pitch, had opened in so many places that she leaked badly, and only constant labor at the pumps kept her afloat. The Flamingo Feather By this time our shipmasters had unloaded the goods and victuals of the planters and taken wood and fresh water, and were newly calking and trimming their vessels for their return to England. Great Epochs in American History, Vol. II The Planting Of The First Colonies: 1562—1733 By keeping the heels as low as possible and shoeing without heel calks a more comfortable position is made possible. Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 "Talking about 'calks'!" he remarked; and diving into the deep recesses of his fur coat he produced a comfortable-looking leather-encased flask. The Luck of the Mounted A Tale of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police This style of calking puts a positive strain upon the rivets, commencing distortion and putting excessive stress upon rivets—already in high tension before the boiler is put in actual use. Scientific American Supplement, No. 810, July 11, 1891 Aside from the peculiar shaped nail holes, the characteristic of the Hunish shoe consists in the changes of the calks for summer and winter shoeing, as well as in the sinking of the nail heads. Scientific American Supplement No. 819, September 12, 1891 The building was water-tight, and he had calked every crevice with unraveled rope until Iris's apartment was free from the tiniest draught. The Wings of the Morning On city streets, horses shod with shoes having long calks get caught in frogs of street railways or by slipping on rails, and phalangeal bones are often broken. Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 "A little 'calk' all round won't hurt us after that tramp, Sergeant!" he observed kindly. The Luck of the Mounted A Tale of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police There is but little need of calking if means are taken to secure a clean metal-to-metal face at the joint surfaces. Scientific American Supplement, No. 810, July 11, 1891 Sometimes both shanks were sharpened in this way, or were provided with blade-shaped calks well set forward. Scientific American Supplement No. 819, September 12, 1891 Lumber, rope, nails, and cotton for calking were bought in large quantities, and on the banks of the Des Moines was inaugurated a tremendous era of shipbuilding. The Road The subject may be shod later, with heel calks that raise the heel moderately and a protracted period of rest should be enforced. Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 I didn't draw the calks for I exercised 'er each d'y, I did. Betty Gordon at Mountain Camp It was a basin of motionless green water, held in the curve of a shore shaped like a horseshoe, with two huge headlands of rock for the calks. White Shadows in the South Seas The calks were next placed forward, perhaps from an uncultivated sense of beauty, or from the high bending up of the hind part of the shoe, which would necessitate a high and heavy unsightly calk. Scientific American Supplement No. 819, September 12, 1891 Their ideal winter sport so far is to calk up every chink in the bunk house, fill the air-tight stove full of pitch pine and set down with a good book by Elinor Glyn. Ma Pettengill When animals are excited and in turning crowd one another, they often perform dancing movements which frequently result in deep calk wounds of the coronet. Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 But her sharpened calks gave her a grip on the frozen snow that the wise mare quickly understood. Betty Gordon at Mountain Camp We became very diligent in getting in our night wood, and in gathering more boughs to calk up the openings in the hut. In the Catskills Selections from the Writings of John Burroughs Also, the calks in England, as well as in the southern countries, on the same ground, therefore, with good reason, could at no time be adopted. Scientific American Supplement No. 819, September 12, 1891 Some of the lead joints leaked slightly at first, but this was soon remedied by more careful calking. Scientific American Supplement, No. 455, September 20, 1884 In some instances, the pastern joint is opened by calk wounds and then, of course, an infectious arthritis succeeds the injury. Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 Her calks threw bits of ice-crust behind her, and she never slipped nor slid. Betty Gordon at Mountain Camp Second quality of iron, poor hanging, insufficient calking, careless mechanics, putty, cement, rag, or paper joints—all these and a dozen other things are liable to be sources of trouble. Scientific American Supplement, No. 484, April 11, 1885 This did, however, not interfere with the use of the calk in the colder south Germany, where after a use of nearly 1,500 years it has maintained its local and climatic adaptation. Scientific American Supplement No. 819, September 12, 1891 At one landing I found a man preparing his house for winter by calking the seams with moss. Overland through Asia; Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar Life Moreover, the shoe with its calks increases the length of the leg and adds to the leverage on the hock, by virtue of such added length. Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 The roan was heavy footed, and his shoes, too, were calked. Betty Gordon at Mountain Camp Having obtained a satisfactory lot of soil pipe and fittings, the next trouble comes with the lead calking. Scientific American Supplement, No. 484, April 11, 1885 These shoes, covering the margin or wall of the foot, show slight traces of having been beveled on the lower surface, and contain two bent calks very superficially placed. Scientific American Supplement No. 819, September 12, 1891 Dirty Dan leaped high in the air and came down with both terrible calked boots on something which gave slightly under him and moaned. Kindred of the Dust Morbific material is introduced into the region of the lateral cartilage by means of calk wounds and other penetrant injuries of the foot. Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 Returning to Pondicherry, D'Aché found that, though the injuries to the masts and rigging could for this time be repaired, there was lack of provisions, and that the ships needed calking. The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 Incidentally it may be remarked that it is quite difficult to calk a tight joint on the heavy pipe; the process will crack the hub. Scientific American Supplement, No. 484, April 11, 1885 The shoe was remarkably narrow at the heel, and was supplied with calks, which accounts for the highness of the back part of the shoe. Scientific American Supplement No. 819, September 12, 1891 In genuine ship-building, calking consists in crowding threads of this material with great force into the seams between the planks. Apples, Ripe and Rosy, Sir The heel is raised by means of a shoe with moderately high heel calks. Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 It is probable too, I think, that in both articles Skinner refers, by mistake, to a line of the Frankelein's tale, which in the common editions stands thus: "Ful subtelly he had calked al this." The Rowley Poems I could speedily bring them to a just sense of their nothingness, unless their ears were calked and pitched, although I am no Savonarola. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 329, March, 1843 The turret and sight-holes were calked, and every possible, entrance for water made secure, only the smallest openings being left in the turret-top, and the blower-stacks, through which the ship was ventilated. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 65, March, 1863 Then I telegraphed Con Foster to have me a buggy and a minister ready for the three o'clock train, and to keep his yawp calked up. Mr. Scraggs When this was done, he went to work on the lighter, which was leaky, and bailed it out, and calked the seams, taking plenty of time, and doing his work in the most thorough manner. The Adventures of Captain Horn Nothing broke the silence but the concert of frogs, which Cameron compares with the noise of calkers calking a ship; with riveters who rivet, and the drillers who drill, in a shipbuilder's yard. Dick Sand A Captain at Fifteen They also concluded to have the boat taken out of the water and thoroughly calked again, and her bottom payed over with pitch, as she was not perfectly tight. Marco Paul's Voyages and Travels; Vermont The whole deck was then carefully calked and the sides made watertight with Portland cement. Scientific American Supplement, No. 799, April 25, 1891 Her topsides were foul, her decks splintered by the tramping of calked boots, grimy with soot and cinders. Big Timber A Story of the Northwest Then remove the expander, and you are ready for your header or calking tool. Rough and Tumble Engineering And many hours more, day by day, he dragged himself around it, lying on his side to calk the gaping seams with moss. Burning Daylight She rested safely now upon an even keel; nor did she leak, for she was well calked with fiber and tarry pitch. Pellucidar Then it was decided to take part of the cargo out and calk her topsides. Youth, a Narrative Splinters flew where the sharp calks bit into the wharf planking, and his companions applauded. Big Timber A Story of the Northwest The header is used by placing the gauge or guide end within the flue, and with your light hammer the flue can be calked or beaded down against the flue sheet. Rough and Tumble Engineering Finding my trade of no immediate benefit, I threw off my calking habiliments, and prepared myself to do any kind of work I could get to do. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass But Frederick Douglass was still calking the seams of Baltimore clippers, and had only written a "pass," at the age when Miller's style was already formed. My Bondage and My Freedom We had stripped her to her girt-lines, calked her, decks and all, from her hold up, and painted her inside and out. The Mutineers They were prototypes of the rude crew but now departed, brown-faced, flannel-shirted, shod with calked boots, unshaven for days, typical men of the woods. Big Timber A Story of the Northwest Having thus calked my Dog-Talk—bark, in fact—with this very tough bit of yarn, I now trustfully commit it to the mercies of the "Atlantic." The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 25, November, 1859 This, with the wear and tear of clothing and calking tools, made my regular expenses about six dollars per week. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass I was placed here to learn to calk, a trade of which I already had some knowledge, gained while in Mr. Hugh Auld's ship-yard, when he was a master builder. My Bondage and My Freedom Pronounce: Darius; aspiring; genius; awry; grimace; droll; Daedalus; Icarus; almanacs; phoebe; calked; breeches; accoutered; pagans; jaunty; stanched. The Elson Readers, Book 5 He wore evening clothes when occasion required as unconcernedly as he wore mackinaws and calked boots among his loggers. Big Timber A Story of the Northwest Although while in port her bottom had been calked and graved, the leak, which gave so much trouble the previous voyage, had not been stopped. Jack in the Forecastle or, Incidents in the Early Life of Hawser Martingale When I could get no calking to do, I did nothing. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass Here I rapidly became expert in the use of my calking tools; and, in the course of a single year, I was able to command the highest wages paid to journeymen calkers in Baltimore. My Bondage and My Freedom All the calking, however, had become loose, and the seams gaped widely. Cord and Creese Why not riprap the skirt, calk the solvages, readjust the box plaits, cat stitch the crown sheet, file down the gores, sandpaper the gaiters and discharge the dolman. Remarks The round, unhewn logs showed their form everywhere; the crevices were calked with moss; and the walls were warm and tight. A Modern Instance I was put there to learn how to calk. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass After learning to calk, I sought my own employment, made my own contracts, and collected my own earnings; giving Master Hugh no trouble in any part of the transactions to which I was a party. My Bondage and My Freedom When I reached the deck, I saw no one but a large man in a large dripping pea-jacket, who was calking down the main-hatches. Redburn. His First Voyage Our boats are leaking again, from the strains received in the bad rapids yesterday, so after dinner they are turned over and some of the men calk them. Canyons of the Colorado As these are not completely filled by the rattan, they are plugged with fibre and calked with damar to prevent leakage. Through Central Borneo; an Account of Two Years' Travel in the Land of Head-Hunters Between the Years 1913 and 1917 After learning how to calk, I sought my own employment, made my own contracts, and collected the money which I earned. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass All who are acquainted with calking, know how uncertain and irregular that employment is. My Bondage and My Freedom Cawk; calk; to set on a horse's shoes sharp points of iron to prevent slipping on ice. The Dialect of the West of England; Particularly Somersetshire Let the shoes be as light as possible, and without calks if it can be afforded, as the mule always travels unsteady on them. The Mule A Treatise on the Breeding, Training, and Uses to Which He May Be Put There was a gap in the horseshoe where the calk should have been. Paths of Glory Impressions of War Written at and Near the Front There I was immediately set to calking, and very soon learned the art of using my mallet and irons. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass Having finished this job and got my pay for the same, I went next in pursuit of a job at calking. My Bondage and My Freedom If incisions are made in the stems of the trees, an abundant pleasant-smelling white resin flows from them, which is largely used in the Philippines to calk ships with. The Former Philippines thru Foreign Eyes The Goodenough shoe is far superior to the old calked shoe, and will answer every purpose where holding is necessary. The Mule A Treatise on the Breeding, Training, and Uses to Which He May Be Put "Junk," old rope, is from the Latin juncus, a bulrush,—the material used along the Mediterranean shore for calking; "oakum," from the Saxon oecumbe, or hemp. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 12, October, 1858 These frosts were what had been called on horses, "frost nails," or calks. Two Centuries of Costume in America, Volume 1 (1620-1820) Then they loaded it again with its stores, and transshipped to it the stores of the other ship, upon which they executed the before-mentioned calking and repairs, so that it became like new. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 08 The Later Renaissance: from Gutenberg to the Reformation The carpenter's gang then set to work to calk the hole temporarily. The Boy Aviators' Polar Dash or Facing Death in the Antarctic It is also good in mountainous countries, and there is no danger of the animal calking himself with it. The Mule A Treatise on the Breeding, Training, and Uses to Which He May Be Put The seams were calked with the moss that hung in clusters from the branches, and then smeared with pitch from the pines. A Brief History of the United States On Cuba the boats were calked and scraped, and the Admiral superintended the operations. Christopher Columbus It was a worth-while sight to see them strike their calks into the ice and brace themselves against the shock which they clearly expected when the cutter started to skid. Over Prairie Trails "We'll calk her at low tide," George declared, well satisfied at this outcome of the misadventure. The Silver Horde Her under planking was nicely joined, and the seams calked with cotton wicking, and afterwards filled with white-lead paint and putty. Four Months in a Sneak-Box The twelve feet of these three hosses have on 'em the finest calked shoes in all these mountains. The Guns of Shiloh A Story of the Great Western Campaign Again Columbus proceeded with the familiar business of calking ships, buying provisions, and engaging a crew. Christopher Columbus Put on heel calks one inch, no toe, to rest and relieve the back tendons from strain. One Thousand Questions in California Agriculture Answered Old rags from the house and parts of the men's clothing supplied calking, upon which the tar was smeared. Rainbow's End In silence the work was resumed, and later, when the boat had been divided, each man set about boarding up and calking the open end of his respective half. The Winds of Chance "Then why in thunder, Blaze," exclaimed Whitley, "did we start without calks on the shoes of our horses?" The Guns of Shiloh A Story of the Great Western Campaign On June 22d, while they were warming some pitch to calk the launch, it took fire, but was extinguished before great damage was done. The March of Portola and the Discovery of the Bay of San Francisco Yensen looked up to reply, chanced to glance aft, and dropped his calking iron in his astonishment. Bar-20 Days At nighttime the maid enters your room, seals the windows, pulls down the shades, locks the shutters, closes the curtains, draws the draperies—and then, I think, calks all the cracks with oakum. Europe Revised As a result of the rainy week, the boat was finished, the seams were calked and pitched by Saturday night, and it was all ready to be launched on Monday. Wakulla: a story of adventure in Florida The road down the mountain was also better than the one by which they had ascended, and as the horses with their calked shoes were swift of foot they made rapid progress. The Guns of Shiloh A Story of the Great Western Campaign The wise beast dug his calked shoes through the deep slush and sprang for the bank, throwing himself into the collar at every leap. Maria Chapdelaine While the oars were making, Powell and his brother climbed up to where some pinyon trees were seen growing, and collected a quantity of gum with which to calk the leaky boats. The Romance of the Colorado River The Story of its Discovery in 1840, with an Account of the Later Explorations, and with Special Reference to the Voyages of Powell through the Line of the Great Canyons Wherever smoke was seen coming out, we calked and pasted and, so far as we could, made the ship smoke tight. Two Years Before the Mast Freed from the treetop, however, and calked with a little moss, it floated with two aboard, which was quite enough for our purpose. Wake-Robin Immediately another, jumping on Shock's prostrate form, began kicking him savagely with his heavy calked boots. The Prospector Twenty-four hours to sharpen their horses' calks and tighten up their cinches, and Irvine was on the trail again en route for Fort Carlton, where he learned serious disturbances were threatening. The Patrol of the Sun Dance Trail It proved that not only the seams had to be calked but that the cog Thomas was out of fresh water. Sir Nigel The boy sprang from log to log, the calks making the chips fly, and with a canthook pushed off a log that had caught and swung upon a small bank. Nan Sherwood at Pine Camp or, the Old Lumberman's Secret The port had been carefully barred and calked over. The After House Wherever smoke was seen coming out, we calked and pasted, and, so far as we could, made the ship smoke tight. Two Years Before the Mast They're like leaky boats—calking, patching, pumping, night and day and all the time. The Valley of the Moon And these few days it was necessary to employ in planking and carefully calking the vessel, and launching her. The Mysterious Island He thrust the calks on his bootsoles into the log and the shreds of bark and small chips flew as he stamped to get a secure footing for his work. Nan Sherwood at Pine Camp or, the Old Lumberman's Secret The carpenter was engaged constantly in attempting to locate such places, and, when he succeeded, in calking them tighter and tighter. South Sea Tales Our forty thousand hides, thirty thousand horns, besides several barrels of otter and beaver skins, were all stowed below, and the hatches calked down. Two Years Before the Mast Following the housewarming, which was accomplished by means of seal-oil and a wick made from cotton calking, came the hunting for our winter’s meat and the building of the second hut. The Sea Wolf The colonists were driven to their last entrenchment, and although the upper seams of the vessel were not yet calked, they decided to launch her at once. The Mysterious Island
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