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uncalk

uncalk is the alternative form of uncaulk.

Meaning of uncaulk

Verb

uncaulk (third-person singular simple present uncaulks, present participle uncaulking, simple past and past participle uncaulked)

  1. (transitive) To remove the oakum from (a ship's seams); to undo the caulking of.

Forms of uncalk

third-person singular presentuncalks
present participleuncalking
past participleuncalked
pastuncalked

Origin of uncalk

From un- + calk.

Questions about uncalk

What is uncalk the alternative form of?
Uncalk is the alternative form of uncaulk.

Words near uncalk in the dictionary

  1. uncalculating
  2. uncalculatingly
  3. uncalendared
  4. uncalendered
  5. uncalibrated
  6. uncalk
  7. uncalked
  8. uncalking
  9. uncalks
  10. uncallable
  11. uncalled

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Adapted from Wiktionary: uncalk (page history and authors); uncaulk (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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