Calkers
caulker.
calk2 (def 2).
a person who caulks the seams of boats or the like.
a caulking tool or device.
Historical Examples
A Simple Soul Gustave Flaubert
Days of the Discoverers L. Lamprey
Mayflower (Flor de mayo) Vicente Blasco Ibez
With the World’s Great Travellers, Volume 1 Various
Sailing Alone Around The World Joshua Slocum
Little Journeys To the Homes of the Great, Volume 3 (of 14) Elbert Hubbard
My Bondage and My Freedom Frederick Douglass
Embassy to the Eastern Courts of Cochin-China, Siam, and Muscat Edmund Roberts
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