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Example sentences for "calk"

Lexicographically close words:
calisthenic; calisthenics; caliver; calivers; calix; calked; calker; calkerlate; calkers; calkilate
  1. 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.

  2. When due to calk wounds where horses are kicked, the injury is often on the side of the tarsus (medial or lateral) and such wounds not infrequently result in infectious arthritis.

  3. Calk wounds which penetrate the tissues in the immediate region of the lower portion of the external part of the femerotibial capsule sometimes result in open joint because of tissue necrosis resulting from the introduction of infection.

  4. 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.

  5. Morbific material is introduced into the region of the lateral cartilage by means of calk wounds and other penetrant injuries of the foot.

  6. These may be inflicted when horses lie down upon sharp stumps of vegetation or shoe-calk injuries may be the means of introducing contagium, and an infectious inflammation results.

  7. In some instances, the pastern joint is opened by calk wounds and then, of course, an infectious arthritis succeeds the injury.

  8. There can be grouped in the class of infectious affections such conditions as nail pricks, calk wounds and canker.

  9. When such a hoof has grown more toe, the toe calk can be dispensed with and the shoe set farther forward.

  10. The top and outer-heel calks cut at right angles, and the inner-heel calk is slender and blunt.

  11. Injuries to the coronet, such as bruises, overreaching, and calk wounds, are considered as the common causes of this disease.

  12. Note the elevation of the short toe by means of a toe calk and the projection of the toe beyond the shoe.

  13. The back surface of the toe calk should be perpendicular.

  14. Preventive measures include the use of boots to protect the coronet of the hind foot and of a blunt calk on the outside heel of the fore shoe, since this is generally the offending instrument when the fore feet are injured.

  15. Fast work on hard roads, jumping, and blows on the coronet, together with calk wounds of the feet, are accidental causes of quarter cracks in particular.

  16. 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.

  17. 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.

  18. We need that in our boat--if it ever gets calm enough to calk it," declared Abe.

  19. It was no easy task to calk the boat, with such tools and material as Abe and Joe had, but it was a credit to their seamanship that they made a good job of it.

  20. I can calk the seams with some of our clothes, and part of the sail cloth.

  21. Smaller numbers were employed by the Gas Company, the Calk Mill, the Cyclone Fence Company, the Northwestern Railroad freight house and a bed spring factory and several were working at the Great Lakes Naval Training Station.

  22. Before the influx the Cyclone Fence Company and the Calk Mill Company were said to have sworn never to employ negro labor.

  23. To thrust oakum into (seams or chinks) with a chisel , the point of a knife, or a chinsing iron; to calk slightly.

  24. To wound with a calk; as when a horse injures a leg or a foot with a calk on one of the other feet.

  25. In the mean time toe protection in the form of a calk had spread from the colder north over southern Germany; whereas this north German invention did not find favor in England in consequence of her mild oceanic climate.

  26. Frequently we find one calk set diagonally, but the other drawn out wedge shaped, and sharp; so that there existed a great similarity between this iron shank and that used by Count Einsiedel for winter shoeing.

  27. 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.

  28. Nothing else remained to do but to daub hot pitch liberally over the seam on both sides, and calk the edges where the patch was attached to the craft.

  29. With the carpenter work of the house completed, =Calk up the Cracks=, of which there will doubtless be a great number, unless matched boards have been used for the walls.

  30. Leaving that island, we turned back in order to find a suitable place to calk the ships, for they were leaking.

  31. The sects were split on Lavoris II to such an extent that marriage between Calk and his beloved would have meant crossing the class lines--something which Silla, a music-lover, was unwilling to contemplate.

  32. Calk is almost forgotten today, but his magnificent Student Orchestra created a storm both of approval and protest when it was first seen in 9734.

  33. Calk had no time for the plaudits of critics and audience; he went searching for Silla.

  34. Its story begins with Calk himself and his sweetheart, a lovely being named Silla.

  35. Calk therefore determined to prove to her that a scientist could be just as artistic as any musician.

  36. Unable to understand her esthetic revulsion, Calk determined there and then to continue his work with the Student Orchestra (it made a great deal more money than science-teaching).

  37. A few quick, light blows upon the calk and the welding is done!

  38. The calk is cold and the little projecting point is easily driven into the hot iron.

  39. When the calk is made I heat the shoe and place the calk in the proper position.

  40. That ought to have been done long ago,' says he, 'and I'll come down after a while and calk it before the sun gets on it.

  41. We must try and calk up some of the open seams; but first we've got to get the water out of her.

  42. You've let that horse calk himself, you beef-brained son of a bladder-fish!

  43. Three leaps, his calk boots biting the logs, put Tommy out of sight behind the pile.

  44. One thing is certain," said he, "that passage about the toe-calk is perfectly true to nature.

  45. The toe-calk is nearly worn away, and the heel-calks are almost as bad.

  46. After the boards are all snugly nailed on the bottom, and fitted together so that there are no cracks to calk up; the hull is ready to have The Bumpers nailed in place, at bow and stern.

  47. 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.

  48. Where there are any knee openings, if the deck is painted, calk them with cotton, if varnished, fill them with putty.


  49. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "calk" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.