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Look up: calk

  1. calk
    [n] - a metal cleat on the bottom front of a horseshoe to prevent slipping 2. [v] - provide with calks 3. [v] - injure with a calk
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  2. calk
    transfer a drawing,etc.,from a tracing Category: Printing and publishing
    Found on http://www.mijnwoordenboek.nl/definition

  3. Calk
    Calk (kak) transitive verb [ imperfect &past participle Calked ; present participle & verbal noun Calking .] [ Either corrupted from French calfater (cf. Portuguese calafetar...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/C/9

  4. Calk
    Calk (kălk) transitive verb [ English calquer to trace, Italian caicare to trace, to trample, from Latin calcare to trample, from calx heel. Confer Calcarate .] To copy, as a drawing, by rubbing the back of it wit...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/C/9

  5. Calk
    Calk (kak) noun [ Confer Anglo-Saxon calc shoe, hoof, Latin calx , calcis , heel, calcar , spur.] 1. A sharp-pointed piece of iron or steel projecting downward on the shoe of a horse or an ox, to prevent the animal fr...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/C/9

  6. Calk
    Calk (kak) intransitive verb 1. To furnish with calks, to prevent slipping on ice; as, to calk the shoes of a horse or an ox. 2. To wound with a calk; as when a horse injures a leg or a foot with a calk on one of the other feet.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/C/9

  7. calk
    calkin noun a metal cleat on the bottom front of a horseshoe to prevent slipping
    Found on http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/web

  8. calk
    verb injure with a calk
    Found on http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/web

  9. Calk
    • (v. i.) To furnish with calks, to prevent slipping on ice; as, to calk the shoes of a horse or an ox. • (v. t.) To drive tarred oakum into the seams between the planks of (a ship, boat, etc.), to prevent leaking. The calking is completed by smearing the seams with melted pitch. • (v...
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning

  10. Calk
    (n) A pointed projection on a horseshoe to prevent slipping; (v) To injure with the calk on a shoe
    Found on http://www.gaitedhorses.net/Articles/Hor



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