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The carpenter is going to set a post under it in the lower deck, and calk the leaky upper parts, and so we shall go on to America.

The load sank the weak scow so deeply that the water ran into cracks in her side, despite their calking; and as they were afraid to embark the whole expedition, two trips were made.

Also the house has to be "calked" occasionally to keep out draughts and more particularly creeping enemies of the hive, like bee-moths and bee-lice.

Indeed, he made it in broad daylight, with Barnes not a hundred yards away, calking a dory whose seams had sprung a leak.

The next day they drew their leaking crafts ashore, and calked them for another sea adventure.