The material obtained by untwisting and picking into loose fiber old hemp ropes; -- used for calking the seams of ships, stopping leaks, etc.
To open (the seams of a vessel's planking) for the purpose of calking them.
It is used in calking the seams of ships; also in coating rope, canvas, wood, ironwork, etc.
The tree furnishes a viscid juice containing caoutchouc, which is used as glue for calking canoes.
When dry it forms a dark varnish, and among other purposes it is employed, mixed with pitch and tar, in the calking of ships.
A woolly kind of scurf, scraped off the leaf stalks, is used for calking boats, and the stem furnishes a small quantity of wood.
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.
He watched a man half a day calking a boat; then he offered himself for the same work, did it fairly, and earned half a day's wages.
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.
The carpenter was engaged constantly in attempting to locate such places, and, when he succeeded, in calking them tighter and tighter.
For calking the seams they made oakum of dry seaweed, which was hammered in between the planks; then these seams were covered with boiling tar, which was obtained in great abundance from the pines in the forest.
And these few days it was necessary to employ in planking and carefully calking the vessel, and launching her.
The East Boston men were acquainted with calking and graving and ship-carpentry; and the engineer officers of the corps were not slow in finding it out.
The husband had gone out to work, and was in the harbor calking an old schooner.
The joints are coated with asphaltum tar, with cotton wadding used as calking material.
Then Abe, making a careful examination, began the work of calkingup the cracks where the water had poured in.
One place where I must have forgotten to do the calking good enough.
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.
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.
She began at once to fill, for the calking had been ill done, and she was sadly damaged.
They made a shift at calking the leaks with rags and a square of oiled canvas.
They had taken great pains this time, and felt sure the calking was there to stay.
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.
To render impervious or solid by driving with a calking iron; as, to stave lead, or the joints of pipes into which lead has been run.
Defn: To open (the seams of a vessel's planking) for the purpose of calking them.
You should provide yourself with a flue expander and a calking tool, with a machinist's hammer, (not too heavy).
Then remove the expander, and you are ready for your header orcalking tool.
They include a noble central block with a spacious hall, a lecture-theatre and library, whilst two wings connected with them afford accommodation for a large staff of masters and some eight hundred boys.
Illustration: Calking the wagon box to turn it into a boat.
Old chisels and broken knives were hunted up, and a boat repairing and calkingcampaign began.
Some calking may be required between the bottom, or floor, boards, if they are not nailed tightly against one another.
To make the boat water-tight will require calking by filling the cracks with twine and white lead or thick paint.
The calking material may be loosely woven cotton cord, which is well forced into the seams.
As they slowly entered the harbor, the sound of hammers, axes, and calking mallets was heard from the northern cove.
I then came to Cincinnati again, where I met my brother Paul, who was working at calking steamboats.
A mellow clack of calking hammers rang across the water.
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.
Calking was done with woolen cloth steeped in pitch.
Those not able to do hard work stripped palmetto leaves to use in the place of tow for calking and rigging.
This style of calkingputs 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.
There is but little need of calkingif means are taken to secure a clean metal-to-metal face at the joint surfaces.
Failing in this, his men collected flatboats, and set to work calking them, meantime sending a party to Buffington Bar, where they found a small earthwork and captured its guard; and these things delayed them until morning.
Our first care was to make good any defects in our boat: some leaks were stopped by a little calking and pitching.
I am told that colored persons can now get employment at calking in New Bedford--a result of anti-slavery effort.
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.
This, with the wear and tear of clothing and calking tools, made my regular expenses about six dollars per week.
Calking mat is the name given to the piece of matting which the bluejacket spreads upon the deck when he wants to take a nap and which protects his uniform from being soiled.
He buys it himself, but never a landsman went aboard his first ship that he was not told to go to the master-at-arms for a calking mat.
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.
It so happened that Mr. Rodney French, late mayor of the city of New Bedford, had a ship fitting out for sea, and to which there was a large job of calking and coppering to be done.
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.
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