caulk
verb/kɔːk/
/kɔːk/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they caulk | /kɔːk/ /kɔːk/ |
| he / she / it caulks | /kɔːks/ /kɔːks/ |
| past simple caulked | /kɔːkt/ /kɔːkt/ |
| past participle caulked | /kɔːkt/ /kɔːkt/ |
| -ing form caulking | /ˈkɔːkɪŋ/ /ˈkɔːkɪŋ/ |
- caulk something to fill the holes in something, especially a ship, with a substance that keeps out waterTopics Transport by waterc2Word Originlate Middle English (in the sense ‘copulate’, used of birds): from Old Northern French cauquer, caukier, variant of cauchier ‘tread, press with force’, from Latin calcare ‘tread’, from calx, calc- ‘heel’.
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