caulking

English

Verb

caulking

1. present participle and gerund of caulk

Noun

caulking (usually uncountable, plural caulkings)

1. A sealing material used to seal joints between heterogeneous materials in many kinds of construction and manufacture.

   Oakum was used for the caulking of the hulls of wooden ships.

   • 2001, Middle Age: A Romance, Joyce Carol Oates (Fourth Estate, paperback edition, 17)

     Marina's bedroom was a small charming room with small charming windows of aged glass, dating to the mid-1800s, windowpanes badly in need of caulking, overlooking St. Agnes Roman Catholic Church with its heraldic spire floating on the night sky, and its ancient bumpy churchyard.

   • 2016, Kenneth Lonergan, Manchester by the Sea, spoken by Lee Chandler (Casey Affleck):

     It might just be the caulking. This whole tub needs to be re-caulked. Did you take a bath or shower in the last couple of hours?

Synonyms

• caulk

Derived terms

• caulking gun
• caulking iron

Translations

sealing material

• Danish: kalfatring
• Dutch: kit (nl)
• Finnish: rive (fi) (oakum), kitti (fi) (putty); tiiviste (fi), tilke (fi) (generic)
• Greek: διάναξη (el) n (diánaxi)
• Italian: stoppa (it) f, stoppa catramata f, stoppa da calafato
• Maori: herepuru
• Serbo-Croatian: brtvilo (sh)

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• Serbo-Croatian: ^{(please verify)} brtvljenje (sh), ^{(please verify)} šuperenje, ^{(please verify)} fugiranje

See also

• Caulk on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Gluckian