What is the name meaning of CALK. Phrases containing CALK
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CALK
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English
English : possibly a habitational name from Calke in Derbyshire ‘(place on) the chalk or limestone’, from Old English (Anglian) calc.Americanized spelling of German Kalk.
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English (Norfolk)
English (Norfolk) : possibly a variant of Calk.
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Arabic, Christian, Muslim
Lion; Derived from Hadara; To Dwell; Strong; Stout; Ferocious Lion; Variant of Haidar
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Hindu
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Bengali, Gujarati, Hindu, Indian, Sindhi
Sapphire
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Bengali, Hindu, Indian, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Tamil, Telugu
The Goddess of Truth
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Indian
Goddess Parvati, Beautiful
Girl/Female
British, Christian, English, Hebrew, Swedish
Female Version of John; The Lord is Gracious; God is Merciful
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Indian
Leader, President, Head, Chief
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Indian, Sanskrit
Leader; Oblation
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English
English : variant of Lye.French : habitational name from Ley in Moselle.French and German : from a medieval personal name, Eloy (Latin Eligius, a derivative of eligere ‘to choose or elect’), made popular by a 6th-century saint who came to be venerated as the patron of smiths and horses.German (Rhineland) : topographic name from Middle High German leie ‘rock’, ‘stone’, ‘slate’, or a habitational name from any of several places named with this word. Compare Leier.
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English : variant of Eddings. This is a common name in TX, NC, and FL.
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n.
One who calks.
n.
To render impervious or solid by driving with a calking iron; as, to stave lead, or the joints of pipes into which lead has been run.
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.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Calk
a.
Shod with shoes armed with points or calks; as, a roughshod horse.
n.
A thick, black, lustrous, and sticky substance obtained by boiling down tar. It is used in calking the seams of ships; also in coating rope, canvas, wood, ironwork, etc., to preserve them.
n.
A calk on a shoe. See Calk, n., 1.
imp. &p. p.
of Calk
n.
See Calker.
v. t.
To open (the seams of a vessel's planking) for the purpose of calking them.
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.
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.
v. t. & n.
See Calk.
n.
The act or process of making seems tight, as in ships, or of furnishing with calks, as a shoe, or copying, as a drawing.
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A tool somewhat like a chisel with a groove in it, used by calkers of ships to finish the seams after the oakum has been driven in.
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A small or shallow tub; esp., one used for holding materials for calking ships, or one used for washing dishes, etc.
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A string of oakum used in calking.
n.
A calk on a shoe. See Calk, n., 1.
n.
The material obtained by untwisting and picking into loose fiber old hemp ropes; -- used for calking the seams of ships, stopping leaks, etc.