Caulk



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解释

GRE 红宝书

• v. 填塞（隙缝使不漏水）
• ［英］ v. 填塞（隙缝使不漏水） ( to stop up the cracks, seams, etc)
• ［同］ 近形词: baulk ( v.阻碍, 阻止)

Webster Collegiate

kI. transitive verb or calk

• Etymology: Middle English caulken, from Anglo-French cauker, calcher, chalcher to trample, from Latin calcare, from calc-, calx heel
• Date: 15th century
• to stop up and make tight against leakage (as a boat or its seams, the cracks in a window frame, or the joints of a pipe)
• ? caulker noun

II. noun or calk; also caulking or calking

• Date: 1954
• material used to caulk

III. *variant of calk II

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