A strip of wood or iron fastened on transversely to something in order to give strength, prevent warping, hold position, etc.
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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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A strip of wood or iron fastened on transversely to something in order to give strength, prevent warping, hold position, etc.
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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…
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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…
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To present, as an act of worship; to immolate; to sacrifice; to present in prayer or devotion; -- often with up.
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To look out for in advance; to procure beforehand; to get, collect, or make ready for future use; to prepare.
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One who rends.
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Any aquatic carnivorous mammal of the families Phocidae and Otariidae.
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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…
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of Wind
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A calk on a shoe. See Calk, n., 1.
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See Calk.
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