CALK

To stuff the seams or openings between the planks of a ship with oakum, which is rope untwisted in to its original state of fibre. The oakum is forced in by a caulking chisel and mallet. It has been found nece ary, when a ship has worked Ihe oakum out of the seams, to fill them with rope. Caulking affords fixedne to the whole frame, and is therefore a great support. The quantity of oakum used in a large ship is very great; in a large three-decker it is near 30 tons, or upwards of four tables. When the seams are caulked, melted pilch is poured on;he seams of the decks out of a pitch ladle; in other places it is laid on with a pitch mop: this is called paying the seams. CAULOCARPOUa (Yunanca köken — orijinale bakınız.) A name applied by De Candolle to such plants as, like trees and shrubs, annually produce llowers and fruit on their branches without perishing. [s. 218]