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caulken

caulken is the alternative spelling of calkin.

Meaning of calkin

Noun

calkin (plural calkins)

  1. A calk (on a horseshoe).
    • Kamal is out with twenty men to raise the Border side,
      And he has lifted the Colonel's mare that is the Colonel's pride.
      He has lifted her out of the stable-door between the dawn and day
      And turned the calkins upon her feet, and ridden her far away.1889, Rudyard Kipling, The Ballad of East and West

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Forms of caulken

pluralcaulkens

Questions about caulken

What is caulken the alternative spelling of?
Caulken is the alternative spelling of calkin.

Words near caulken in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: caulken (page history and authors); calkin (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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