Exempel på calk

• 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.

• Our line was sixteen miles long, the shape of a horseshoe, with the hind calking resting on the river.

• These barges were constructed of planks strongly corded together over a frame, and calked and pitched.

• Those not able to do hard work stripped palmetto leaves to use in the place of tow for calking and rigging.

• We had stripped her to her girt-lines, calked her, decks and all, from her hold up, and painted her inside and out.

• Leaving that island, we turned back in order to find a suitable place to calk the ships, for they were leaking.

• Common sense and shoeing tools are the only requirements necessary to tack on a plate without calks.