Definition of "calking" [calk•ing]

• Present participle of calk. (verb)

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• "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."
• "There was that matter of the deck-calking, the bronze rudder-irons, the overhauling of the engine, the new spinnaker boom, the new davits, and the repairs to the whale-boat."
• "The carpenter was engaged constantly in attempting to locate such places, and, when he succeeded, in calking them tighter and tighter."