Meaning & use
calking
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The act of sealing joints or seams to make them watertight or airtight, using a filler material; an alternate spelling of 'caulking.'
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The old boat needed fresh calking between its wooden planks before it could go back in the water.
He spent the afternoon calking the gaps around the bathtub.
A note on using this word
'Calk' and 'caulk' are variant spellings of the same word; 'caulking' is by far the more common spelling in modern American and British English.
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