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transitive verb \ˈkȯk\Definition of CAULK
: to stop up and make tight against leakage (as a boat or its seams, the cracks in a window frame, or the joints of a pipe)
— caulk·er noun
Variants of CAULK
caulk or calk \ˈkȯk\
Examples of CAULK
- He carefully caulked the area around the windows.
Origin of CAULK
Middle English caulken, from Anglo-French cauker, calcher, chalcher to trample, from Latin calcare, from calc-, calx heel
First Known Use: 15th century
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noun \ˈkȯ-kiŋ\Definition of CAULK
: material used to caulk
Variants of CAULK
caulk or calk also caulk·ing or calk·ing \ˈkȯ-kiŋ\
First Known Use of CAULK
1954
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