| 单词 | caulked |
| 例句 | He filled the seams between the new planks with wool yarn unraveled from a scarf and then caulked them with Marston’s oil paints. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z A hired slave named Frederick Douglass caulked vessels in Fells Point shipyards and later escaped on a train. A new Inner Harbor luxury hotel, the Sagamore Pendry Baltimore, shines with history’s luster 2017-09-14T04:00:00Z The famous castle ruins loom high on the mountainside, a centuries-old mosaic caulked with moss and tiny plants. Mark Twain Found Inspiration in Germany (Though the Language Eluded Him) 2016-08-16T04:00:00Z Old wooden ships had to be constantly caulked up because they leaked. Surrender. It's Brian Eno 2010-04-28T20:35:00Z The contractor returned and caulked the gaps and repainted, but the problem reappeared. How to repair bathroom wainscoting 2015-04-28T04:00:00Z ICE also said it rushed to make repairs to broken plumbing, caulked all windows and cleaned mold from vents. Bug infestations, moldy ceilings, botched medical care found at ICE detention facility 2022-07-06T04:00:00Z But then, in unexpected circumstances, my caulked tear ducts began springing leaks. Opinion | Pandemic tears of joy 2021-12-30T05:00:00Z Making sure that your windows are properly caulked is another important task to keep your home warm and draft-free, Ecklund says. Prepping your home for rough weather | Produced by Seattle Times Marketing 2020-10-16T04:00:00Z In 2014, Facilities Management replaced drywall and caulked window sills with waterproof sealant to address moisture problems, according to a statement from the facilities department. Allergies, rashes and sinus headaches: U-Md. professors have been dealing with mold for years 2019-10-06T04:00:00Z He added weatherstripping on windows and doors, caulked cracks, put plastic sheets over some windows, switched to LED and CFL bulbs and closed the gap in a basement door. Home-energy audit can make a house more efficient | Produced by Advertising Publications 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z The technicians also installed LED lightbulbs, low-flow showerheads and weather stripping in the windows, and caulked the perimeter of our family room, bedroom and office. Home energy audit: The best money I’ve ever spent 2018-02-01T05:00:00Z Your home may have vinyl siding and the j-channel around doors and windows shouldn’t be caulked. A top-to-bottom list of what to check outside your home post winter 2017-04-18T04:00:00Z The house was in poor condition—“there was a bad smell, all the windows were caulked shut,” said Ms. Arias. These Real-Life Ghostbusters Will Help Sell Your Haunted House 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z The Genesis’ every nook and cranny is caulked and foam-filled to attenuate unpleasant aural radiations. Hyundai Genesis: What Makes the Car an Automotive Star 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z Khasisatra enters a vessel, properly so called; it is launched, undergoes a trial trip, all its seams are caulked with bitumen, it is entrusted to a pilot. The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, November 1879 2012-04-25T02:01:12.830Z The materials required are iron borings, sal-ammoniac and sulphur; these are mixed together, moistened with water, and rammed into the socket, which is previously half filled with yarn, well caulked. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 "Hearing" to "Helmond" 2012-04-25T02:00:53.567Z Her ports had to be closed and caulked, being only five feet above the water, and she was therefore unable to work her guns at sea. The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 1 2012-04-03T02:00:38.807Z The outer timbers were tightly caulked with oakum, like a ship, and the whole was payed over with pitch. The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 2 2012-04-03T02:00:36.237Z They were to be caulked, and swelled, and launched, and stowed, before they could venture to embark in them. The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 3 2012-04-03T02:00:31.900Z Each joint can be as efficiently caulked as the other, as the rivet spacing is the same and the edge of the plate is the same distance from the rivets in both cases. Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II 2012-03-23T02:00:33.140Z The latter are much more convenient for packing the meat in, and are easily caulked, if they should crack so as to leak. Sheep, Swine, and Poultry Embracing the History and Varieties of Each; The Best Modes of Breeding; Their Feeding and Management; Together with etc. 2012-03-21T02:00:35.167Z The joints are packed or caulked with tow, smeared with a mixture of white and red lead. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 7 "Horticulture" to "Hudson Bay" 2012-03-04T03:00:13.390Z The upper planking consists of three or four broad boards on each side, sewn together, and their seams caulked. Narrative of the surveying voyages of His Majesty's ships Adventure and Beagle, between the years 1826 and 1836 Volume I. - Proceedings of the First Expedition, 1826-1830 2012-02-24T03:00:32.793Z The leaks having been well caulked, Dennis proceeded to pump the water from the lower parts of the hold. With Drake on the Spanish Main 2012-02-20T03:00:17.357Z Having caulked their ships, they sent out a long bark as a scout, and arranged a plan of attacking the Spanish fleet. The Monarchs of the Main, Volume III (of 3) Or, Adventures of the Buccaneers 2012-01-23T03:00:10.207Z Marine′-glue, not a glue, but a cementing composition, used in shipbuilding, for paying seams in ships' decks after being caulked. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) 2012-01-11T03:00:23.770Z Inside, the joints were carefully caulked with cement and rendered smooth, the plasterers working continuously along with the pipe layers, doing from 20 to 35 m. at a time. ASCE 1193: The Water-Works and Sewerage of Monterrey, N. L., Mexico The 4th article from the June, 1911, Volume LXXII, Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers. Paper No. 1193, Feb. 1, 1911. 2012-01-02T03:00:24.717Z The canoes were large; at the bottom was a plank, twenty inches wide, to which were sewn the sides, in the manner of the piraguas, and they were caulked with bark, in a similar way. Narrative of the surveying voyages of His Majesty's ships Adventure and Beagle, between the years 1826 and 1836 Volume I. - Proceedings of the First Expedition, 1826-1830 2012-02-24T03:00:32.793Z Many a time he had seen ships careened and caulked in the dockyard at Plymouth. With Drake on the Spanish Main 2012-02-20T03:00:17.357Z So that the meaning of the passage is that the ships are caulked or pitched with this herb or gum. A Description of the Coasts of East Africa and Malabar in the Beginning of the Sixteenth Century 2011-12-11T03:00:10.483Z Around this as a centre is fitted a roll of linoleum, oiled inside and secured with string, with all its joints caulked with clay. Pottery, for Artists Craftsmen & Teachers 2011-12-10T03:00:15.097Z Next they put in a good pile of dry hay, carefully close the front door and lock it up with stones caulked with grass and moss. The Adventures of a Grain of Dust 2011-11-22T03:00:12.257Z On the 13th of October, we sailed for Rio de Janeiro to procure some stores, which had been sent from England for our use, and to be caulked and refitted. Narrative of the surveying voyages of His Majesty's ships Adventure and Beagle, between the years 1826 and 1836 Volume I. - Proceedings of the First Expedition, 1826-1830 2012-02-24T03:00:32.793Z There were many streaks of light, chinks which must be caulked, where they did not fit. Bevis The Story of a Boy 2011-08-13T02:00:28.377Z Canoes are kept beneath the houses for several months, until the festival of Kiala, or fetching food, when they are brought to the beach at Elpanam, caulked, and made ready for use. In the Andamans and Nicobars The Narrative of a Cruise in the Schooner "Terrapin" 2011-06-30T02:00:24.487Z We caulked the Jenny as per instructions, and got her taut as a bottle. Dry Fish and Wet Tales from a Norwegian Seaport 2011-04-24T02:00:08.440Z We want her sides caulked with oakum, an' well scraped an' painted, so that with water inside of her or outside of her she won't leak. The Dusantes A Sequel to "The Casting Away of Mrs. Lecks and Mrs. Aleshine" 2011-03-06T03:00:18.327Z It was very picturesque and substantial, built of huge logs, and caulked with moss. On Canada's Frontier Sketches of History, Sport, and Adventure and of the Indians, Missionaries, Fur-traders, and Newer Settlers of Western Canada 2011-02-09T03:00:51.093Z But it still leaked, so they drew it out once more and again caulked the seams. Bevis The Story of a Boy 2011-08-13T02:00:28.377Z She had been put together with rather green timber, and, having been caulked in England, in winter, her seams were beginning to gape beneath the ardent heats of a semi-tropical climate. Memoirs of Service Afloat, During the War Between the States 2011-01-04T03:01:01.887Z The horses balled and stumbled and caulked themselves. The Boss of Wind River 2010-12-30T03:00:28.770Z They were caulked with oakum, on the top of which, to a third of the total depth, hot asphalt was run. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 3 "Apollodorus" to "Aral" We caulked the largest with table knives, wooden wedges, &c. Journal of Voyages Containing an Account of the Author's being Twice Captured by the English and Once by Gibbs the Pirate... We caulked it as best we could with leaves and some old rags, but the thing was a failure, and none of us cared to risk it. The Bright Side of Prison Life Experience, In Prison and Out, of an Involuntary Soujouner in Rebellion More than once he had bummed passage near the atomic fuel vats of cranky old space-freighters that were mere tin cans caulked with chewing gum. Shock Treatment Twenty hardened fighters, every one of whom thirsted for a chance to trample on his face with caulked boots, crowded up behind MacNutt. The Boss of Wind River 2010-12-30T03:00:28.770Z The work went on so expeditiously that the brigantines were finished in a very short time, and had now merely to be caulked, provided with masts, sails, and then to be rigged. The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo, Vol 2 (of 2) Written by Himself Containing a True and Full Account of the Discovery and Conquest of Mexico and New Spain. The craft had struck a dozen times, twice rather sharply, but beyond a scraping on one side and a slight crack in the bow, which was speedily caulked up, she escaped injury. To Alaska for Gold The Fortune Hunters of the Yukon Savery took the stand in his uniform of slavery, red mackinaw shirt, stagged-off pants, caulked shoes, and a battered slouch hat in his hand. The Everett massacre A history of the class struggle in the lumber industry It takes nearly twelve hours to get the ship free, and caulked, and ready to lift. The Lost Kafoozalum With the tattered canvas and the seams tarred and the mends in the hull caulked, Hudson handed out all the bread that was left—a pound to each man. The "Adventurers of England" on Hudson Bay A Chronicle of the Fur Trade in the North (Volume 18 of the Chronicles of Canada) We were kidding Lew because he was still wearing his tin hat and caulked boots from work. Trees Are Where You Find Them The shack was built of logs, notched where they crossed at the corners and caulked with moss. Partners of the Out-Trail This building had been originally made warm and tight by moss chinking, a heavy door, and closely caulked windows. The Trail of a Sourdough Life in Alaska While the deck was being laid the hull was caulked and painted, and the two masts, sails, and rigging prepared. By Conduct and Courage A Story of the Days of Nelson The Madras boat is large and light, constructed of thin planks sewed together with hide thongs, and caulked with cocoanut fibre. Due West or Round the World in Ten Months In the longer boats planks or gunwales are stitched on the sides, and the seams are caulked, so as to render the boat water-tight. Children of Borneo Holes are bored, the birch threaded through, securely fastened, and then, to make the whole thing water-tight, the seams are well caulked with tar. Through Finland in Carts "I never caulked a boat in my life, and I think it a poor time to begin," said Smithson. The Trail of a Sourdough Life in Alaska Large barrack-rooms are provided with caulked floors like ships' decks, and have rows of hammocks slung across them; these are stowed in the day-time, when the rooms are used as mess-rooms. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon" Yes, I know we'd figured we'd got everything caulked up air-tight, but I says to myself, 'What's the use in taking a chance on a leak if you don't have to?' Sundry Accounts But should be securely barred and caulked in before proceeding to sea. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. It was caulked with oakum obtained from some of the least serviceable of the ropes of the brig, dipped in a resin that they found oozing from some trees. With Cochrane the Dauntless Every day witnessed a certain amount of progress, until at length the open shell was finished and caulked. The First Mate The Story of a Strange Cruise During this long stay of a month in one place the vessels were well caulked, the sails and rigging attended to, and every precaution taken for a voyage in tropical and damp climates. Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part 2. The Great Navigators of the Eighteenth Century It was not through the crevice, I had stopped with the jacket, they had sought entrance; but by another aperture, which I had caulked with a piece of cloth. The Boy Tar A tool for clearing the pitch and oakum out of the seams, previous to their being caulked afresh. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. Then suddenly with two quick strong stamps of his caulked feet the young riverman brought the whirling timber to a standstill. The Adventures of Bobby Orde After the digging is completed, the house trap, which is a 6-inch running trap, is caulked into a length of 6-inch cast-iron pipe. Elements of Plumbing The deck is of mahogany, well caulked, and seven-eighths of an inch in thickness. A Yacht Voyage Round England It could not get underneath the butt, for the crevice there was closed up, regularly caulked with pieces of the cloth. The Boy Tar A cross is cut in the tree-nail end, and wedges driven in, caulked; or sometimes a wedge is driven into its inner end, and the tree-nail is thus secured. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. By heaving her down they got at what they believed to be the chief leak, and caulked it, and in four days they considered their craft once more ready for sea. The Three Midshipmen A long sweep fitting is caulked without a great deal of difficulty. Elements of Plumbing Meantime, the ship was caulked, which she much required. Captain Cook His Life, Voyages, and Discoveries I caulked up the vent as before, and then sat down in silence. The Boy Tar A vessel or boat, the planks of which are all flush and smooth, the edges laid close to each other, and caulked to make them water-tight: in contradistinction to clinker-built, where they overlap each other. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. She had been freshly caulked while she lay on the deck of the Scarboro, and her seams did not let in enough water to keep her sweet. Swept Out to Sea Clint Webb Among the Whalers If placed outside the house or below the cellar floor the clean-outs must extend to surface with brass screw cap ferrules caulked in. Elements of Plumbing On the outside it was built with double planks, daubed over with Greek pitch, caulked with linen rags, and over all a sheet of lead, fastened on with little copper nails.” How Britannia Came to Rule the Waves Updated to 1900 Finding a commodious port, with abundance of fresh water and fuel, they hove down their ships and caulked them. Notable Voyagers From Columbus to Nordenskiold Well caulked, and so compact as to prevent the admission of water. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. As you look at the walls, you see the house is built of timbers, squared and notched together, and caulked with moss or oakum. Acadia or, A Month with the Blue Noses When cool, the lead should be set and then caulked around the pipe and around the hub. Elements of Plumbing It was covered with thick planking, and lined with lead, thoroughly caulked and tarred, while over all was a coat of canvas, payed over with hot pitch. How Britannia Came to Rule the Waves Updated to 1900 In a short time the old tower, under the captain’s directions, was put into a habitable condition, and well caulked, as he observed, when he surveyed the work. Washed Ashore The Tower of Stormount Bay A vessel fitted for boiling pitch in, which should be veered astern of the one being caulked. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. The walls are built of heavy timbers, laid one upon another, and caulked with moss or oakum. Acadia or, A Month with the Blue Noses The fittings and traps and pipe are caulked in place as fast as possible. Elements of Plumbing The lighthouse was enveloped in flames nearly to the bottom, for the outside planking, being caulked and covered with pitch, was very inflammable. The Story of the Rock He caulked the cask and declared that the first who sucked it should have a talk with him. The Fête At Coqueville 1907 The seam may be strapped inside or at the ends by bits of ebonite acting as bridges, and the seam itself may be caulked with melted paraffin or anthracene. On Laboratory Arts His rough dwelling of logs, with one room, floored with puncheon, caulked with mud, and covered with bark or thatch, however uncomfortable from our point of view, made him a habitable home. History of the United States, Volume 2 When possible, the joints are caulked outside of the trench in an upright position. Elements of Plumbing Their seams were caulked like those of a ship, and they gave to the lighthouse when finished the appearance of an elegant fluted column. The Story of the Rock The spaces between the planks are caulked—that is, stuffed with oakum; which substance is simply the untwisted tow of old and tarry ropes. Man on the Ocean A Book about Boats and Ships During this period the rude tents of spars and sailcloth were supplanted by ruder huts of round logs, caulked with hay and plastered with mud. The Crew of the Water Wagtail They laid the keel and pushed the work with amazing energy and ingenuity, caulked the seams with long moss gathered from the neighboring trees and smeared the bottoms and sides with pitch from the pines. French Pathfinders in North America All joints in cast-iron pipe must be made with picked oakum and molten lead and caulked gas-tight. Elements of Plumbing The colonists were driven to their last entrenchment, and although the upper seams of the vessel were not yet caulked, they decided to launch her at once. The Secret of the Island We resolved that she should be very strong; so we almost filled her with beams, and double-planked her over after having caulked the first planking. Peter the Whaler About fifteen feet beyond our depth the Captain had anchored a stationary staging, which was merely an old flatboat caulked and floored over. Captain Mugford Our Salt and Fresh Water Tutors At length five boats, composed of five planks lashed together and caulked with rags, were forthcoming. Great African Travellers From Mungo Park to Livingstone and Stanley After this has been done, the center of the lead is caulked and the joint should be tight. Elements of Plumbing The seams were caulked with gum collected from trees growing near, mixed with resin, which exuded from the trunks of others. On the Banks of the Amazon The timbers had been caulked with moss, and no doubt had had snow piled up against them, to keep out the penetrating cold, while the nearly flat roof was covered with stones. Steve Young A cogged or corked or caulked joint is made by cutting out only parts of the notch on the lower piece, leaving a "cog" uncut. Handwork in Wood Jack and I climbed up the cliffs and got more pine gum, with which we caulked up the seams in our boat. A Canyon Voyage The Narrative of the Second Powell Expedition down the Green-Colorado River from Wyoming, and the Explorations on Land, in the Years 1871 and 1872 This piece has to be cut off, but no attempt should be made to do so until it has been caulked in place and well set; also the rest of the lead should be set. Elements of Plumbing The utmost care had been taken to have it well caulked, and it was again put into the water, after all the leaky spots had been closed up. The Wonder Island Boys: The Mysteries of the Caverns At Stonington we were left once more to our little boat and our four oars, and there we pulled her up and caulked her. More Jonathan Papers The boat was soon mended and the new section of plank caulked with oakum, and shortly after midday the trap boat was again afloat, and quite as serviceable as before the accident. Left on the Labrador A Tale of Adventure Down North This machine consisted of a box, about twenty feet long by three feet wide, lined with lead, caulked, tarred, ballasted and laden almost to the water's edge with barrels of powder and other combustibles. The Mayor of Troy The mechanics will have to work at the throat from each side until this part has been sufficiently caulked. Elements of Plumbing It was hauled up on shore and caulked and new parts added to make it adaptable for the purpose. The Wonder Island Boys: The Mysteries of the Caverns Each end is "caulked," that is, split longitudinally and turned up and down. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" A number of shipwrights were set upon the hull of the Swan, which was to be thoroughly overhauled, caulked and pitched, within and without. By Right of Conquest Or, With Cortez in Mexico He also kept his command well caulked, and saw the chocks and skids secure when his boat was hoisted to the deck. On the Spanish Main Or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of Darien. Material of House Drain and Sewer.—House drains or soil pipes laid beneath floor must be extra heavy cast-iron pipe, with leaded and caulked joints, and carried 5 feet outside cellar wall. Elements of Plumbing A few trials of lead wire caulked cold gave such satisfactory results that it was adopted as a substitute. Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, vol. LXVIII, Sept. 1910 The New York Tunnel Extension of the Pennsylvania Railroad. The East River Tunnels. Paper No. 1159 Thus the port, when tightly caulked from without, became again an integral part of the hull; I was told that there had never keen a trace of leakage from her bows. The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story Then he patiently picked an old piece of tarred rope into oakum, and caulked it into the seams with a sharpened gate-hinge. The Ontario Readers: Fourth Book A wooden ship was never quite dry, in any weather, for the upper-deck planks, and the timbers of her topsides, could never be so strictly caulked that no water could leak in. On the Spanish Main Or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of Darien. Upon her arrival she was hauled out on the marine ways at Oakland creek, cleaned, caulked, and some new copper sheathing put on her bottom. Captain Scraggs or, The Green-Pea Pirates Up to August, 1907, the joints between the segments of the cast-iron lining were caulked with iron filings and sal ammoniac, mixed in the proportion of 400 to 1 by weight. Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, vol. LXVIII, Sept. 1910 The New York Tunnel Extension of the Pennsylvania Railroad. The East River Tunnels. Paper No. 1159 The decks, which after her long voyage let water through sadly, were caulked, and barnacles six inches long were taken from her bottom and sides. South with Scott It was well caulked in all its seams. A Dweller in Mesopotamia Being the Adventures of an Official Artist in the Garden of Eden I then carefully caulked the tiny crack between each of these bulkheads, and turning the surplus tin over, nailed it to the wood. Jethou or Crusoe Life in the Channel Isles It was long, and, for a dug-out, fairly wide, but ancient and black, and moist at the bottom, owing to an insufficiently caulked crack. Two Knapsacks A Novel of Canadian Summer Life Where the broken plate was isolated and was reinforced by steel or extra heavy segments in the adjacent ring, the crack, if slight, was simply caulked to insure water-tightness. Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, vol. LXVIII, Sept. 1910 The New York Tunnel Extension of the Pennsylvania Railroad. The East River Tunnels. Paper No. 1159 When leaks or cracks occur, they may be caulked with hemp, and smeared with pitch, which will render them thoroughly waterproof. Camp Life in the Woods and the Tricks of Trapping and Trap Making Forthwith that shiplet was raised from the water on to the land, and placed in a shed that its leaks and cracks might there be caulked. The Latin & Irish Lives of Ciaran Translations Of Christian Literature. Series V. Lives Of The Celtic Saints Our sails and water-casks were repaired, the ships were caulked, and the rigging all overhauled. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 16 The joints were caulked down 3/16 in. below the face of the bell. The Water Supply of the El Paso and Southwestern Railway from Carrizozo to Santa Rosa, N. Mex. American Society of Civil Engineers: Transactions, No. 1170 Pneumatic hammers were used successfully on the lead caulking, but were only used to a small extent on the rust borings, which were mostly hand caulked. Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, vol. LXVIII, Sept. 1910 The New York Tunnel Extension of the Pennsylvania Railroad. The East River Tunnels. Paper No. 1159 After the pieces are all nailed in place, the seams and crevices should be caulked with hemp, using a blunt chisel, or hard wooden wedge, and a mallet. Camp Life in the Woods and the Tricks of Trapping and Trap Making The ship required to be caulked in every part for she was become so leaky that we had been obliged to pump every hour in our passage from Cape Horn. A Voyage to the South Sea For The Purpose Of Conveying The Bread-Fruit Tree To The West Indies, Including An Account Of The Mutiny On Board The Ship Their native barks or piraguas are formed of from three to five planks, sewed together, and caulked with a species of moss which grows on a particular shrub. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels - Volume 05 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time It is a friable material, and cannot be caulked successfully. The Water Supply of the El Paso and Southwestern Railway from Carrizozo to Santa Rosa, N. Mex. American Society of Civil Engineers: Transactions, No. 1170 The spaces between the logs must be caulked with moss, etc., or the log-cabin will be little better than a log-cage. The Art of Travel Shifts and Contrivances Available in Wild Countries The hot and sultry weather we had just passed through, had opened her seams, which had been badly caulked at first, so wide, that they admitted the rain-water through as it fell. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 15 Forming A Complete History Of The Origin And Progress Of Navigation, Discovery, And Commerce, By Sea And Land, From The Earliest Ages To The Present Time The shack was built of pine logs, notched where they crossed at the corners, and the seams were caulked with clay and moss. The Lure of the North It is a hall, with a floor of solid earth and a roof of thin laths caulked and plastered with mud. Overland through Asia; Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar Life It is melted and poured, but not caulked. The Water Supply of the El Paso and Southwestern Railway from Carrizozo to Santa Rosa, N. Mex. American Society of Civil Engineers: Transactions, No. 1170 Indeed, if we had not caulked her with some dried moss and some stiff clay, it is doubtful if she would have floated far. The Amateur Poacher They were caulked, as modern ships are; the timbers and planks fixed with iron nails, and a composition of lime, oil, and hemp, spread over the surface. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels - Volume 18 Historical Sketch of the Progress of Discovery, Navigation, and Commerce, from the Earliest Records to the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century, By William Stevenson The Alabama did not take in any coal, either here or at Table Bay, but after being caulked she proceeded to sea on the 15th instant, followed by the Tuscaloosa. The Cruise of the Alabama and the Sumter The timbers were fastened with wooden pins and leathern thongs, and the crevices were caulked with moss. Overland through Asia; Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar Life All this was performed with so much diligence, that by the 28th both ships were careened, caulked, rigged, and restored fit for sea. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 10 Arranged in systematic order: Forming a complete history of the origin and progress of navigation, discovery, and commerce, by sea and land, from the earliest ages to the present time. Many of them speak and write Arabic, and some few of them Portuguese, as they trade with Mosambique in junks of forty tons burden, built, caulked, and rigged all out of the cocoa-nut tree. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 09 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time It had not gone in deep enough to do any harm, and what, hole there was could be caulked with very little trouble. The Hilltop Boys on the River They were obliged to employ powerful pumps and apparatus of compressed air to drain it off, so as to close up the orifice from which it issued, just as leaks are caulked on board ship. The Moon-Voyage On board the vessels guns are cleaned, harpoons pointed, whale-boats caulked, and the winter deck-house is lifted off bodily. The New North In the mean time, the boat being now ready, de Weert went ashore in her on the 1st January, 1600, to get her properly caulked. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 10 Arranged in systematic order: Forming a complete history of the origin and progress of navigation, discovery, and commerce, by sea and land, from the earliest ages to the present time. When the hold is full the hatch is fastened down and caulked, as exposure to the salt air injures the teas. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 04, February, 1858 The bateaux often needed to be beached and caulked, while both whites and Indians had to help carry the loads round the shoal places. The Winning of the West, Volume 2 From the Alleghanies to the Mississippi, 1777-1783 We carefully caulked all the seams with tow dipped in melted tar; and we even indulged ourselves by placing the two small guns in it, fastened by chains. The Swiss Family Robinson; or Adventures in a Desert Island When caulked and scraped, she was painted, her rigging was overhauled and got into its places, the masts and yards were sent aloft, and all the sails were overhauled. The Crater For half an hour Amos Green hammered and trimmed and caulked, while the sharp measured clanking of the pumps sounded above the dash of the seas. The Refugees This ark was built of stout planks, with the lower seams caulked, forming a perfectly flat basis on the water. Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers He had provided himself, among other things, with a complete suit of oilskin, and a straw hat with a very low crown, pitched or caulked on the outside. David Copperfield Second, the casting of a steam-jacket in one cylinder, instead of being made in separate segments bolted together with caulked joints, as was previously done. Men of Invention and Industry It was smooth from one end to the other, and it was well caulked with pitch. The White Knight: Tirant Lo Blanc But it had to answer, and in the end I got it well in place and the joints so tightly caulked that I was sure of having a dry hold. In the Sargasso Sea A Novel Well, I won't anticipate: I dare say it is well caulked. The Channings It was Smith’s intention to launch her as soon as her hull should be sufficiently caulked. The Mysterious Island We fastened down the curtains and even caulked them with clothing, but the rain streamed in in twenty places, nothwithstanding. Roughing It, Part 2. These vats should be made of the best cypress or yellow-pine plank, two and a half inches thick, well fastened to the joints and studs with seven-inch spikes, and then caulked, to prevent their leaking. An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia, Volume 2 Doubtless the demand is well made and very apparent, but the answer shall satisfy you, or my wit is not rightly caulked. Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 2 In the A.M., having caulked her upper works, hove out the Larboard side again, which a number of Workmen were employ'd repairing. Captain Cook's Journal During the First Voyage Round the World I noticed one that was caulked with a rag where the joint was imperfect. Travels in Alaska There was a fireplace where I cooked my food, but the wood burned poorly and it was very draughty, though I had caulked the walls as well as I could. Pan The vessels of La Guayra, which is less a port than a bad open roadstead, come to Porto Cabello to be caulked and repaired. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2 A.--The boiler should be filled with water and caulked afresh in any leaky part. A Catechism of the Steam Engine The ship was found to be very leaky in her upper works, as the great heat had opened up her seams which had been badly caulked at first. The Life of Captain James Cook The Tom Tough, now caulked and repaired, was to make her way to the Albert River in the Gulf of Carpentaria, where they would again probably meet. The Explorers of Australia and their Life-work A number of loggers were present, dressed in the invariable mackinaw, stagged overalls and caulked shoes. The Centralia Conspiracy Before going to sea, however, these air-ports must be closed, caulked, and the seams hermetically sealed with pitch. White Jacket or, the World on a Man-of-War The platform may consist of three inch planking laid across the keelsons nailed with iron, nails, the heads of which are well punched down, and caulked and puttied like a deck. A Catechism of the Steam Engine Is a pitched piece of reason caulked and tackled, and only studied to dispute with tempests. Character Writings of the 17th Century It is, of course, a matter of necessity in such cases to have the cracks and fissures, and especially the seam where the case and the lid join, hermetically caulked. The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 Hardy, the caulker, hastened first of all to mend the hull; pegs had to be changed, bits of planking to be replaced, seams to be caulked. An Antarctic Mystery "We have caulked all hatches and gratings forward, and stopped the ventilators," he said. Lister's Great Adventure Ben and I scraped away with our knives some of the "gum" or natural pitch with which the seams of the canoe were caulked. Young Knights of the Empire : Their Code, and Further Scout Yarns Hewn from the hardiest trees in the forest, caulked and fortified to defy the most violent assaults of water, she was like paper in the clutch of flames. West Wind Drift The carpenter and his assistants caulked the coffer-dam with strips of blankets and nailed strips over the seams wherever possible. South: the story of Shackleton's 1914-1917 expedition The planks were bound together by a sort of liana, or creeping-plant, and caulked with moss steeped in pitch, which was turned by contact with the sea-water to a substance as hard as metal. An Antarctic Mystery The hatches were soon on, and, in an imperfect manner, caulked. Jack Tier The planks were rough-hewn by the hatchet, and caulked with the moss which grew in long streamers on the trees. This Country of Ours The uncarpeted floor of narrow boards is caulked and holystoned like a deck. Heartbreak House He also stripped cylindrical pieces of bark, and having sewn each cylinder at the side, fitted to it a bottom of the same material, and caulked the seams with gum and pine-tree resin. For the Term of His Natural Life They returned to the little morning room, Thorpe's caulked boots gouging out the little triangular furrows in the hardwood floor. The Blazed Trail Picture those early navigators venturing forth in sailboats built from planks lashed together with palm–tree ropes, caulked with powdered resin, and coated with dogfish grease. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea Then there is another leak to be caulked, another rat-hole to be nailed up, and so the game goes on. Okewood of the Secret Service These are still caulked and tight and fastened on the inside, as they have been since the passage of Cape Horn began. The Mutiny of the Elsinore They caulked it, by cutting out the leak, and then plugging the hole with linen. For the Term of His Natural Life Then the leak, too, that has to be caulked; and, un- less it is stopped up very effectually, we shall only be doomed most certainly to perish at sea. The Survivors of the Chancellor Then the leak, too, that has to be caulked; and, unless it is stopped up very effectually, we shall be only doomed most certainly to perish at sea. The Survivors of the Chancellor, diary of J.R. Kazallon, passenger Sir, we have a chest beneath the hatches, caulked and bitumed ready. Pericles Also, the two iron doors, on port and starboard, that open from the cabin directly upon the main deck, have been barricaded and caulked. The Mutiny of the Elsinore |
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