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caulked

caulked is the simple past and past participle of caulk.

Meaning of caulk

Verb

caulk (third-person singular simple present caulks, present participle caulking, simple past and past participle caulked)

  1. 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
  2. To apply caulking to joints, cracks, or a juncture of different materials.
  3. (slang) To copulate.
  4. (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

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Adjective

caulked (not comparable)

  1. Having cracks or crevices stopped-up with a filler.

Forms of caulked

alternative formcalked

Words formed from caulked

Phrases with caulked

Words that rhyme with caulked

Questions about caulked

What does caulked mean?
Caulked means having cracks or crevices stopped-up with a filler.
What is caulked the simple past and past participle of?
Caulked is the simple past and past participle of caulk.
What part of speech is caulked?
Caulked is an adjective.

Words near caulked in the dictionary

  1. caulirosulate
  2. caulis
  3. caulk
  4. caulk off
  5. caulkable
  6. caulked
  7. caulked off
  8. caulken
  9. caulkens
  10. caulker
  11. caulkers

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