(v. t.) To drive tarred oakum into the seams between the planks of (a ship, boat, etc.), to prevent leaking. The calking is completed by smearing the seams with melted pitch.
(v. t.) To make an indentation in the edge of a metal plate, as along a seam in a steam boiler or an iron ship, to force the edge of the upper plate hard against the lower and so fill the crevice.
(v. t.) To copy, as a drawing, by rubbing the back of it with red or black chalk, and then passing a blunt style or needle over the lines, so as to leave a tracing on the paper or other thing against which it is laid or held.
(n.) A sharp-pointed piece of iron or steel projecting downward on the shoe of a horse or an ox, to prevent the animal from slipping; -- called also calker, calkin.
(n.) An instrument with sharp points, worn on the sole of a shoe or boot, to prevent slipping.
(v. i.) To furnish with calks, to prevent slipping on ice; as, to calk the shoes of a horse or an ox.
(v. i.) To wound with a calk; as when a horse injures a leg or a foot with a calk on one of the other feet.
Example Sentences:
(1) Three case reports are given where the horses were shoed with full bar shoes with clips and high calks, and were given two months rest in a box.
Falk
Definition:
(n.) The razorbill.
Example Sentences:
(1) The application of the transformation technique of Stork and Falk [J. Opt.
(2) Adopting the voice of ageing jazz player Sid Griffiths, Edugyan narrates the terrible tale of Hiero Falk, the Afro-German trumpeter arrested by the Gestapo in occupied Paris.
(3) The hippocampal formation (the hippocampus and the dentate fascia) of the rabbit was studied by histochemical fluorescent method of Falk to determine localization of monoaminergic terminals containing biogenic amines: noradrenalin, dophamine and serotonin.
(4) 195, 423-434 and Huber, R., Schneider, M., Mayr, I., Müller, R., Deutzmann, R., Suter, F., Zuber, H., Falk, H. & Kayser, H. (1987) J. Mol.
(5) Enterochromaffine cells (ECC) of the rat duodenal mucosa were revealed by Falk-Hillarp's fluorescent-histochemical method, by Masson-Hamperl's method and by diazoreaction with fast red.
(6) Later UDCA (Ursofalk, Falk Pharma) was given at a dose of 250 mg three times daily.
(7) This operation offers some measure of hope for the not insignificant number of patients who have been left with poor speech after pharyngeal flap surgery and supports the recent work of Cosman and Falk (2).
(8) At a news conference in Indianapolis Ken Falk, legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Indiana, said: "This is not about an abortion case.
(9) When analyzed on the basis of complementation for a wing abnormality the mutations can be divided into three groups, each of which is believed to affect the activity of one of the first three enzymes of pyrimidine synthesis (Norby, 1973; Jarry and Falk, 1974; Rawls and Fristrom, 1975).
(10) Such variability suggests that Falk's (Nature 313:45-47, 1985) orientation of the Hadar specimen is incorrect; she places asterion superior to the position of the squamosal suture if projected endocranially.
(11) Among those attending the event will be Alex Falk, who as a 16-year-old in 1953 acted as a photographer's runner for Reuters, dashing from the abbey to Fleet Street after the service to deliver slides to be processed.
(12) Prof Jim Falk, of the Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute at the University of Melbourne, told the symposium there were more than 40 distinct methods that could be described as geoengineering, including planting large numbers of trees and painting roofs white.
(13) The number and fluorescence intensity of small intensely fluorescent (SIF) cells in the nerve ganglia of the rat atria were determined after the treatment, using modified Falk's method.
(14) Adrenergic nerve fibers of the capillaries devoid of the smooth muscle coat were revealed by Falk's method in the mesentery and the kidney fibrous capsule of dogs after 6 daily noradrenaline infusions and with cardiogenic shock developing against this background.
(15) Falk's histochemical fluorescent method was used to study monoamine (MA)-containing structures in isolated hypothalamus nuclei and in the neurohemal region of the medial eminence (ME) in 40 male rats under the conditions of a long-term stress (6 months) which was caused by a repeated weak electrodermal stimulation.
(16) This sequence coincides with the eight residue, allele-specific peptide binding motif previously predicted from direct sequencing of naturally occurring Kb-associated peptides (Falk, K., Rotzscke, O., Stevanovic, S., Jung, G., and Rammensee, H.-G., Nature 351:290, 1990).
(17) John Falk, a US lobbyist whose company, Firecreek, represents the Kestral Group, one of Pakistan's largest defence firms, joined its board of directors.
(18) (1976) and Simpson & Falk (1982), a link between HLA and the locus for MEN 2 can be excluded.
(19) We reconsider the method of Ott and Falk (1982) for the analysis of genetic linkage and of epistasis in the presence of phenotypic association.
(20) Seven Holtzman rats were kept on a polydipsia-induced schedule of alcohol consumption for 3 months in a replication of a 1972 study by Falk and colleagues.