From Old Northern French cauquer, from Late Latin calicāre (“to fill in with limestone, caulk”), derived from calx (“limestone, chalk”). Related to calx, cauk, chalk, and calculus.
Meanings
(countable, uncountable) Caulking.
(countable, uncountable) 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.
(alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable) Alternative form of calk (“pointed projection on a horseshoe”).
(countable, slang, uncountable) A short sleep; a nap.
[…] & we went for a long walk & fatigued ourselves so that I, for one, took a caulk in the afternoon. 1961, Oswald Frewen, Sailor's Soliloquy, page 242:
nl kit (substance for filling and/or sealing) · tr silikon (substance for filling and/or sealing) · fi tiiviste (substance for filling and/or sealing) · mi herepuru (substance for filling and/or sealing) · hu tömítő (substance for filling and/or sealing) · mi puru (substance for filling and/or sealing) · sh brtvilo (substance for filling and/or sealing) · hu fuga (substance for filling and/or sealing) · ms pakal (substance for filling and/or sealing) · fi kitti (substance for filling and/or sealing) · mi purupuru (substance for filling and/or sealing) · de Dichtungsmasse (substance for filling and/or sealing) · da kalfatring (substance for filling and/or sealing) · sh brtvena masa (substance for filling and/or sealing) · cs tmel (substance for filling and/or sealing) · pl szczeliwo (substance for filling and/or sealing) · sh fugirna masa (substance for filling and/or sealing)
From Old Northern French cauquer, from Late Latin calicāre (“to fill in with limestone, caulk”), derived from calx (“limestone, chalk”). Related to calx, cauk, chalk, and calculus.
Meanings
To drive oakum into the seams of a ship's wooden deck or hull to make it watertight.
[W]e might be disturbed during the night by an order being given to "go about," and by hearing in the quiet hours of the morning the familiar inquiry of "How's her head?" Mine often ached with the din of the men caulking all day long! 1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 112:
To apply caulking to joints, cracks, or a juncture of different materials.
(slang) To copulate.
(slang) To take a short sleep; to nap.
There was the goggle-eyed daughter a blowing the Grampus [throwing a bucket of water upon a person] with the platter-faced planter, whenever he caulked upon deck; […] 1829, William Nugent Glascock, Sailors and Saints: Or Matrimonial Manœvres, page 179:
[…] and as sleep is about the only thing there is for a sailor at sea to get in the way of recreation, he prizes it accordingly and gets all he can. It is technically called "caulking," and a man will brag of having "caulked" the whole four hours of his watch on deck […] 1897, Herbert Elliott Hamblen, William Stone Booth, On Many Seas: The Life and Exploits of a Yankee Sailor, page 40:
cy calcio (to seal joints with caulk) · nb kalfatre (to seal joints with caulk) · izh kanappia (to seal joints with caulk) · it bitumare (to seal joints with caulk) · tr kalafat çekmek (to seal joints with caulk) · my လိန်းဖာ (to seal joints with caulk) · ru заде́лывать (to seal joints with caulk) · hu fugáz (to seal joints with caulk) · nl kitten (to seal joints with caulk) · ca calafatar (to seal joints with caulk) · fr étouper (to seal joints with caulk) · pl uszczelniać (to seal joints with caulk) · cs utěsnit (to seal joints with caulk) · nl kalfaten (to seal joints with caulk) · it calafatare (to seal joints with caulk) · nrf calfaîter (to seal joints with caulk) · ca calafatejar (to seal joints with caulk) · mi mono (to seal joints with caulk) · fr calfeutrer (to seal joints with caulk) · sh šuperiti (to seal joints with caulk) · it cianfrinare (to seal joints with caulk) · el καλαφατίζω (to seal joints with caulk) · nl breeuwen (to seal joints with caulk) · sv kalfatra (to seal joints with caulk) · gl calafatear (to seal joints with caulk) · es calafatear (to seal joints with caulk) · sh fugirati (to seal joints with caulk) · my လိန်းထေး (to seal joints with caulk) · sh brtviti (to seal joints with caulk) · de kalfatern (to seal joints with caulk) · mi purupuru (to seal joints with caulk) · nl kalefateren (to seal joints with caulk) · da kalfatre (to seal joints with caulk) · de mit Dichtungsmasse abdichten (to seal joints with caulk) · ga calc (to seal joints with caulk) · bg калафатя (to seal joints with caulk) · pt selar (to seal joints with caulk) · fr calfater (to seal joints with caulk) · nb fuge (to seal joints with caulk) · fi tilkitä (to seal joints with caulk) · pt vedar (to seal joints with caulk) · ru замазывать (to seal joints with caulk) · pl uszczelnić (to seal joints with caulk) · my ထေး (to seal joints with caulk) · es enmasillar (to seal joints with caulk) · pt calafetar (to seal joints with caulk)