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caulk [kȯk] Also spelled calk. (engineering) To make a seam or point airtight, watertight, or steamtight by driving in caulking compound, dry pack, lead wool, or other material. (materials) Material used to caulk seams. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Douglass had personally experienced violence at the hands of white laborers, having been attacked by carpenter apprentices in a Baltimore shipyard and denied employment by the white caulkers of New Bedford, Massachusetts. Gomer makes plain that he took the initiative in trying to acquire the figure when he saw it in the girl's possession and that, when his initial attempts to purchase it were rebuffed, he went to unusual lengths to get around the owner's opposition, asking the "king" Richard Caulker to intervene and offering him a valuable object--his own revolver--and an Arabic Bible to use his good offices on his (Gomer's) behalf. Palmer's Shipbuilding and Iron Company Limited, as a caulker, and he takes a very prominent part in the affairs of the Salem Baptist Church, and to all appearances is a very loyal subject. |
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