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Calk

To drive tarred oakum into the seams between the planks of (a ship, boat, etc.), to prevent leaking. The calking is completed by smearing the seams with melted pitch.

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Cleat 76% connected

A strip of wood or iron fastened on transversely to something in order to give strength, prevent warping, hold position, etc.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Furnish 76% connected

To supply with anything necessary, useful, or appropriate; to provide; to equip; to fit out, or fit up; to adorn; as, to furnish a family with provis…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Injure 76% connected

To do harm to; to impair the excellence and value of; to hurt; to damage; -- used in a variety of senses; as: (a) To hurt or wound, as the person; to…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Offer 76% connected

To present, as an act of worship; to immolate; to sacrifice; to present in prayer or devotion; -- often with up.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Provide 76% connected

To look out for in advance; to procure beforehand; to get, collect, or make ready for future use; to prepare.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Render 76% connected

One who rends.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Seal 76% connected

Any aquatic carnivorous mammal of the families Phocidae and Otariidae.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Supply 76% connected

To fill up, or keep full; to furnish with what is wanted; to afford, or furnish with, a sufficiency; as, rivers are supplied by smaller streams; an a…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Wound 76% connected

of Wind

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Calkin 92% connected

A calk on a shoe. See Calk, n., 1.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Caulk 92% connected

See Calk.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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