The boats, which were split with frost and warped by sunshine, had to be calked and swelled before they were fit for use.
The port had been carefully barred and calked over.
The joints below water were calked by divers and above water by masons, and a section was then grouted.
The best way is to use four-inch cast iron pipe, calking all joints with oakum and lead.
And these few days it was necessary to employ in planking and carefully calking the vessel, and launching her.
We became very diligent in getting in our night wood, and in gathering more boughs to calk up the openings in the hut.
The subject may be shod later, with heel calks that raise the heel moderately and a protracted period of rest should be enforced.
When used for calking on a vessel they must expand and contract with the temperature and not crack or come loose.
