noun.
The copying of a picture or design by means of tracing.
noun.
The operation of filling the seams of vessels with oakum, to prevent penetration of water. The oakum is forced below the surface, and the space outside of it is filled with melted pitch.
noun.
In carpentry, a dovetail tenon-and-mortise joint by which cross-timbers are secured together, much used for fixing the tie-beams of a roof, or the binding-joists of a floor, down to the wall-plates.
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noun.
The act or process of making seems tight, as in ships, or of furnishing with calks, as a shoe, or copying, as a drawing.
noun.
a tool like a chisel, used in calking ships, tightening seams in ironwork, etc.
"Men worked frantically, early and late, at the height of their endurance, calking, nailing, and pitching in a frenzy of haste for which adequate explanation was not far to seek."