caulk

caulk

See also: Caulk

English

Alternative forms

• calk

Etymology

From Old Northern French cauquer, from Late Latin calicō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔːk/
• (cot–caught merger, Canada) IPA^(key): /kɑk/

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• Rhymes: -ɔːk
• Homophone: cock (some accents)
• Homophone: cork (some accents)
• IPA^(key): /kælk/ (some US)
• Rhymes: -ælk (some US)
• Homophones: calc, calk, caulque (some US)

Noun

caulk (countable and uncountable, plural caulks)

1. Caulking.
2. A composition of vehicle and pigment used at ambient temperatures for filling/sealing joints or junctures, that remains elastic for an extended period of time after application.
3. Alternative form of calk (“pointed projection on a horseshoe”)

Translations

caulking — see caulking

substance for filling and/or sealing

Danish: kalfatring Dutch: kit (nl) Finnish: tiiviste (fi), kitti (fi)

Hungarian: fuga (hu) Maori: herepuru Serbo-Croatian: brtvilo (sh), brtvena masa, fugirna masa

Verb

caulk (third-person singular simple present caulks, present participle caulking, simple past and past participle caulked)

1. (nautical) To drive oakum into the seams of a ship's wooden deck or hull to make it watertight.
2. To apply caulking to joints, cracks, or a juncture of different materials.

Translations

to seal joints with caulk

Bulgarian: калафатя (kalafatja) Catalan: calafatar (ca) Danish: kalfatre (da) Dutch: breeuwen (nl), kalefateren (nl), kitten (nl) Finnish: tilkitä (fi) French: calfeutrer (fr), étouper (fr), calfater (fr) Galician: calafatear (gl) German: kalfatern (de) Greek: καλαφατίζω (el) (kalafatízo) Hungarian: fugáz

Irish: calc Italian: calafatare (it), bitumare (it), cianfrinare (it) Maori: mono, purupuru Norman: calfaîter Norwegian: fuge Portuguese: calafetar (pt) Russian: замазывать (ru) (zamazyvatʹ), заде́лывать (ru) (zadélyvatʹ) Serbo-Croatian: brtviti (sh), šuperiti (sh), fugirati (sh) Spanish: enmasillar (es), calafatear (es) Welsh: calcio

See also

• Caulking on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Lauck, Lukač