Jack and I climbed up the cliffs and got more pine gum, with which we caulked up the seams in our boat.
We caulked the boat temporarily, launched her once more on the sweeping tide, and in two minutes were at our camp, where we hauled her out for the repairs necessary to make her sound for the run to the Paria.
By dint of determination we soon had the satisfaction to see the water line lower, and catching new spirit at this, we finally succeeded in sinking its level below the caulked seam.
A tool for clearing the pitch and oakum out of the seams, previous to their being caulked afresh.
But should be securely barred and caulked in before proceeding to sea.
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.
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.
Two steel doors, tight-fastened and caulked against the Cape Horn seas, opened under the overhang of the poop from the cabin on to the main deck.
These are still caulked and tight and fastened on the inside, as they have been since the passage of Cape Horn began.
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.
When leaks or cracks occur, they may be caulkedwith hemp, and smeared with pitch, which will render them thoroughly waterproof.
If, however, the leak should continue, that particular part of the boat should be re-caulked and smeared with pitch.
The horses balled and stumbled and caulked themselves.
Twenty hardened fighters, every one of whom thirsted for a chance to trample on his face with caulked boots, crowded up behind MacNutt.
For use, it is stirred up with just enough water to thoroughly moisten it, and it is rammed or caulked into the joints with a blunt caulking chisel and hammer, after which the joint is screwed up by its bolts as tightly as possible.
The calcined ore is conveyed to tightly caulked wooden tanks, in which it receives repeated washings with hot water, tower liquor, and dilute hydrochloric acid till all the soluble copper is thereby extracted.
They returned to the little morning room, Thorpe's caulked boots gouging out the little triangular furrows in the hardwood floor.
When cool, the lead should be set and then caulkedaround the pipe and around the hub.
Connection on lead and cast-iron pipe shall be made with brass sleeve or ferrule, of the same size as the lead pipe inserted in the hub of the iron pipe, and caulked with lead.
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.
The fittings and traps and pipe are caulked in place as fast as possible.
When possible, the joints are caulked outside of the trench in an upright position.
If placed outside the house or below the cellar floor the clean-outs must extend to surface with brass screw cap ferrules caulked in.
A long sweep fitting is caulked without a great deal of difficulty.
All joints in cast-iron pipe must be made with picked oakum and molten lead and caulked gas-tight.
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.
After this has been done, the center of the lead is caulked and the joint should be tight.
It could not get underneath the butt, for the crevice there was closed up, regularly caulked with pieces of the cloth.
I caulked up the vent as before, and then sat down in silence.
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.
He resented filth, overwork and poverty, he resented being made to carry his own bundle of blankets from job to job; he gritted his teeth together and fought until he had ground these obnoxious things under his iron-caulked heel.
A number of loggers were present, dressed in the invariable mackinaw, stagged overalls and caulked shoes.
A few trials of lead wire caulked cold gave such satisfactory results that it was adopted as a substitute.
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.
These broke up under the blows of the hammer, and caulked the hole tight.
I then carefully caulked the tiny crack between each of these bulkheads, and turning the surplus tin over, nailed it to the wood.
These streaks I put on clinker-wise--that is, overlapping, and thoroughly caulkedthem with oakum soaked in grease.
If there are cracks in the bark, these are caulked with rushes and a species of resin, which the woods furnish.
The pieces of bark are united by a stitching of thongs; and the seams carefully caulked so that no water can enter.
The walls are built of heavy timbers, laid one upon another, andcaulked with moss or oakum.
As you look at the walls, you see the house is built of timbers, squared and notched together, and caulked with moss or oakum.
It is a hall, with a floor of solid earth and a roof of thin laths caulked and plastered with mud.
The timbers were fastened with wooden pins and leathern thongs, and the crevices were caulked with moss.
All are built of wood, and mostly of round logs dovetailed together at the ends, and caulked with moss, giving them a massive warm look, even from outside.
The massive wooden walls well caulkedwith moss, which is said to be better and more lasting than oakum, are well adapted to exclude cold.
The outer timbers were tightly caulked with oakum, like a ship, and the whole was payed over with pitch.
The lighthouse was enveloped in flames nearly to the bottom, for the outside planking, beingcaulked and covered with pitch, was very inflammable.
Their seams were caulked like those of a ship, and they gave to the lighthouse when finished the appearance of an elegant fluted column.
These can then becaulked with oakum, cotton-batting, or wicking, or something of that nature.
The bottom can also be caulked (see page 302), but if you cannot get the sheathing the way first described will answer every purpose.
They can be laid slightly apart and the seams caulked (see page 302).
Then apply white lead plentifully to the caulked seams.
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 above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "caulked" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
