Wherever smoke was seen coming out, we calkedand pasted and, so far as we could, made the ship smoke tight.
Our forty thousand hides and thirty thousand horns, besides several barrels of otter and beaver skins, were all stowed below, and the hatches calked down.
This boat is well painted outside and rubbed down to a fine oil finish inside; it has one deck, and the hull is used for toilet apartments and state-rooms; the hull is well calked and all is in good trim.
The bottom-boards are to be so planed upon their edges that they leave V-shaped grooves on the inside of the boat to be calked with candlewick and putty (Fig.
They are first calked with candlewick, over which putty is used, but for a rough boat it is not even necessary to use any calking.
Dirty Dan leaped high in the air and came down with both terrible calkedboots on something which gave slightly under him and moaned.
Then examine the calked flues carefully, and if you see any seeping of water, use your beader lightly till the water stops.
If your safety valve is in perfect order, you will know as soon as water begins to escape at the safety valve whether your flues are calked tight enough or not.
She drew quickly back, however, as the crunch of calked boots sounded on the porch.
Never a word said the young riverman as he turned and clattered down the trail, his calked boots rasping on the pebbles.
When the groove has been filled the soft-iron pieces are calked or spread so as to hold the blades firmly in place.
Brass rings A calked into the gland box encircle the shaft on either side of the annular steam space S.
Reivers, and the handlers thrust the three combatants, stripped to the waists but wearing calked lumberjack shoes, through the ropes.
The leak in the canoe was where Pedro calked in the wax.
The next day they drew their leaking crafts ashore, and calked them for another sea adventure.
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.
Over the places where this was insufficient, we nailed pieces of boards, and calked round the edges.
Various hypotheses are recorded as to how sprains are influenced and among others may be mentioned that of McDonough[52], which is that the foot is robbed of its normal manner of support by the ordinary three-calked shoe.
To make such a connection the end of the lead pipe is “wiped” onto a brass thimble, heavy enough to allow it to be joined to the soil pipe by a calked lead joint.
The brass thimble is then joined to the cast-iron pipe by a calked lead joint.
This pipe as is explained in detail later, is made of cast iron and is put together with calked lead joints.
Well-calked joints of this kind are air-tight and permanent.
Our forty thousand hides, thirty thousand horns, besides several barrels of otter and beaver skins, were all stowed below, and the hatches calked down.
Wherever smoke was seen coming out, we calked and pasted, and, so far as we could, made the ship smoke tight.
They had calked the cracks with cloth, and for a moment isolated the Silver Menace in that one room.
It tried to creep in under the doorsills, but we calked them with the table linen.
And because there was not enough of it, they calked them with the flaxe of the Countrie, and with the mantles, which they rauelled for that purpose.
The twelve feet of these three hosses have on 'em the finest calked shoes in all these mountains.
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.
I have also almost lost my taste for pictures or music.
Then we replaced the chinkings that the porcupines had gnawed out, calked and mudded all cracks.
These scows are calked with oakum and rags, and the seams are made water-tight with pitch or tar.
Her under planking was nicely joined, and the seams calked with cotton wicking, and afterwards filled with white-lead paint and putty.
You don't find my hosses calked or shoulder-galled.
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.
On Cuba the boats were calked and scraped, and the Admiral superintended the operations.
As she sat there, a man dressed in the blue shirt and mackinaw trousers and high, calked boots of the logger turned in off the road, a burly woodsman that she recognized as one of Jack Fyfe's crew.
She heard his deep, drawly voice urging the unwisdom of sleeping with calked boots on, and Beaton's hiccupy response.
Her topsides were foul, her decks splintered by the tramping ofcalked boots, grimy with soot and cinders.
Fyfe was beside her, his calked boots biting into the oak floor.
Mackinaws and calked boots don't go with oriental rugs and oak floors.
He wore evening clothes when occasion required as unconcernedly as he wore mackinaws and calked boots among his loggers.
The remaining space is filled with hot molten lead, which, on cooling, is well rammed andcalked in by special tools made for the purpose.
To make a good, gas-tight, lead-calked joint, experience and skill are necessary.
Iron Pipe is joined to Iron Pipe by lead-calked joints.
Where the ground is "made," or filled in, the house sewer must be made of cast iron, with the joints properly calked with lead.
Lead cannot be soldered to iron, so a brass fitting or ferrule is used; it is jointed to the lead pipe by a wiped joint, and to the iron pipe by an ordinary lead-calked joint.
All joints of the pipe must be gas-tight, lead-calked joints, as stated before.
When the logs meet the rafter pole all the cracks are chinked up with small pieces of wood and the crevices calked with moss.
If the logs fit close together on the roof they may becalked with moss and dry grass.
If a boatman has calked a vessel of 60 gur (burthen) for a man, he shall give him two shekels of silver as his pay.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "calked" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
