† calfretv.

Forms: Also calfate, calfet, calfuter.

Etymology: < French calfrete-r (Cotgrave), calfater, calfeutrer to caulk (a ship). The word occurs also as Italian calafatare, Spanish calafatear, -fetear; usually believed to be < Arabic qalafa, in 2nd conjugation qallafa to caulk a ship with palm-tree fibre, etc.; compare medieval Greek καλαϕάτης caulker. The French form calfeutrer is conjectured to have been influenced by feutre felt.

Obsolete.

transitive. To stop up (with oakum) the seams of (a ship); to caulk.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > shipbuilding and repairing > build a ship [verb (transitive)] > fit out or equip > make watertight > caulk

caulk?a1500

stop1535

calfreta1600

cork1684

horse up1850

a1600 Hume in Sibbald Chron. Scot. Poetry (1802) III. 381 (Jam.) Weill calfuterd [printed calsutered] bots.

1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. 482 They..therewith [viz. with reeds] calfret or calke the ioints of their ships.

1648 H. Hexham Groot Woorden-boeck Kleuteren, to give Knocks or Blowes, or to Calfate.

1653 T. Urquhart tr. F. Rabelais 2nd Bk. Wks. xiii. 90 The Plaintiffe truly had just cause to calfet..the gallion.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

单词	calfret
释义	† calfretv. Forms: Also calfate, calfet, calfuter. Etymology: < French calfrete-r (Cotgrave), calfater, calfeutrer to caulk (a ship). The word occurs also as Italian calafatare, Spanish calafatear, -fetear; usually believed to be < Arabic qalafa, in 2nd conjugation qallafa to caulk a ship with palm-tree fibre, etc.; compare medieval Greek καλαϕάτης caulker. The French form calfeutrer is conjectured to have been influenced by feutre felt. Obsolete. transitive. To stop up (with oakum) the seams of (a ship); to caulk. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > shipbuilding and repairing > build a ship [verb (transitive)] > fit out or equip > make watertight > caulk caulk?a1500 stop1535 calfreta1600 cork1684 horse up1850 a1600 Hume in Sibbald Chron. Scot. Poetry (1802) III. 381 (Jam.) Weill calfuterd [printed calsutered] bots. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. 482 They..therewith [viz. with reeds] calfret or calke the ioints of their ships. 1648 H. Hexham Groot Woorden-boeck Kleuteren, to give Knocks or Blowes, or to Calfate. 1653 T. Urquhart tr. F. Rabelais 2nd Bk. Wks. xiii. 90 The Plaintiffe truly had just cause to calfet..the gallion. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < v.a1600
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