Calk: Definition and part of speech

Calk

v. i. To wound with a calk; as when a horse injures a leg or a foot with a calk on one of the other feet.
v. t. 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.
v. t. To make an indentation in the edge of a metal plate, as along a seam in a steam boiler or an iron ship, to force the edge of the upper plate hard against the lower and so fill the crevice.
v. t. To copy, as a drawing, by rubbing the back of it with red or black chalk, and then passing a blunt style or needle over the lines, so as to leave a tracing on the paper or other thing against which it is laid or held.
n. A sharp-pointed piece of iron or steel projecting downward on the shoe of a horse or an ox, to prevent the animal from slipping; — called also calker, calkin.
n. An instrument with sharp points, worn on the sole of a shoe or boot, to prevent slipping.
v. i. To furnish with calks, to prevent slipping on ice; as, to calk the shoes of a horse or an ox.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

n. A part of a turtle which is next to the upper shell. It contains a fatty and gelatinous substance of a dull greenish tinge, much esteemed as a delicacy in preparations of turtle.

n. A part of a turtle which is attached to the lower shell. It contains a fatty and gelatinous substance of a light yellowish color, much esteemed as a delicacy.

n. pl. An instrument, usually resembling a pair of dividers or compasses with curved legs, for measuring the diameter or thickness of bodies, as of work shaped in a lathe or planer, timber, masts, shot, etc.; or the bore of firearms, tubes, etc.; — called also caliper compasses, or caliber compasses.

p. pr. & vb. n. of Call
n. The act of one who calls; a crying aloud, esp. in order to summon, or to attact the attention of, some one.
n. A summoning or convocation, as of Parliament.
n. A divine summons or invitation; also, the state of being divinely called.
n. A naming, or inviting; a reading over or reciting in order, or a call of names with a view to obtaining an answer, as in legislative bodies.
n. One’s usual occupation, or employment; vocation; business; trade.
n. The persons, collectively, engaged in any particular professions or employment.

n. Successor or vicar; — a title of the successors of Mohammed both as temporal and spiritual rulers, now used by the sultans of Turkey.

n. See Assessment, 4.
v. t. To command or request to come or be present; to summon; as, to call a servant.
v. t. To summon to the discharge of a particular duty; to designate for an office, or employment, especially of a religious character; — often used of a divine summons; as, to be called to the ministry; sometimes, to invite; as, to call a minister to be the pastor of a church.
v. t. To invite or command to meet; to convoke; — often with together; as, the President called Congress together; to appoint and summon; as, to call a meeting of the Board of Aldermen.
v. t. To give name to; to name; to address, or speak of, by a specifed name.
v. t. To regard or characterize as of a certain kind; to denominate; to designate.
v. t. To state, or estimate, approximately or loosely; to characterize without strict regard to fact; as, they call the distance ten miles; he called it a full day’s work.
v. t. To show or disclose the class, character, or nationality of.
v. t. To utter in a loud or distinct voice; — often with off; as, to call, or call off, the items of an account; to call the roll of a military company.
v. t. To invoke; to appeal to.
1n. 1 See Assessment, 4.
1v. t. 1 To command or request to come or be present; to summon; as, to call a servant.