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单词 caulking
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caulkingn.

/ˈkɔːkɪŋ/
Etymology: < caulk v.
The action of caulk v. Also figurative.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > shipbuilding and repairing > [noun] > fitting out or equipping ships > caulking seams
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1481–90 Howard Househ. Bks. (1841) 70 To the Spanyard for kalkyng iijd.
1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde f. 213v Lycour..lyke vnto pytche..very commodious for the calkynge of shyppes.
1692 Smith's Sea-mans Gram. (new ed.) i. xvi. 76 Caulking, is driving of Ockham, Span-hair, and the like into all the seams of the Ship, to keep out Water.
1884 Law Times 10 May 26/2 Repairs of caulking.

Compounds

attributive and in other combinations, as caulking-chisel n. a chisel for closing the seams between iron plates. caulking-iron n. an instrument resembling a chisel used for driving the oakum into the seams of ships. caulking-mallet n. a mallet for driving this.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > shipbuilding and repairing > [noun] > fitting out or equipping ships > caulking seams > tools
chinsing-iron1508
caulker1543
reef hook1617
caulking-iron1627
caulking-mallet1627
horse-iron1750
rave-hook1780
meaking iron1853
sharp-iron1887
1627 J. Smith Sea Gram. ii. 13 A calking Iron and a Mallet.
1667 J. Dryden Annus Mirabilis 1666 cxlvi. 37 Their left-hand does the Calking-iron guide.
a1859 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. (1861) V. 75 [Peter the Great] wielded with his own hand the caulking iron and the mallet.
1879 Cornhill Mag. Jan. 41 Docks, timber yards, calking basins, and ship~builders' yards.
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