cauker

Noun (1)

caulker (plural caulkers)

1. A person who caulks various structures (as ships) and certain types of piping.
   • He was one of the best caulkers around.2016, Yaa Gyasi, Homegoing, Penguin Books (2017), page 117
2. A tool used for caulking ships; a caulking iron.
3. (archaic, slang) An alcoholic drink; a dram.
   • “Will you taste, messmate?” he asked; and when I had refused: “Well, I’ll take a dram myself, Jim,” said he. “I need a caulker, for there’s trouble on hand. And talking o’ trouble, why did that doctor give me the chart, Jim?”1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC

Noun (2)

caulker (plural caulkers)

1. A lime kiln.

Noun

corker (plural corkers)

1. One who puts corks into bottles.
   • Yes it is, Frank. Don't you see? Laertes is to take the best of care of his friends—his proved friends, on the same principle that a wine-corker takes the best of care of his proved bottles.1857, Herman Melville, chapter 30, in The Confidence-Man
2. (informal) A person or thing that is exceptional or remarkable.
   • Well, a body is bound to admit that for just a modest little one-line ad., it's a corker.1889, Mark Twain, chapter XVI, in A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, page 124

   Synonyms:

   whopper

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