Caulking

verb noun

To drive oakum into the seams of a ship's wooden deck or hull to make it watertight.

Definition

  1. (verb) To drive oakum into the seams of a ship's wooden deck or hull to make it watertight.
  2. (verb) To apply caulking to joints, cracks, or a juncture of different materials.
  3. (verb) Fuck
  4. (noun) A sealing material used to seal joints between heterogeneous materials in many kinds of construction and manufacture. “Oakum was used for the caulking of the hulls of wooden ships.”

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  • Caulking contains 8 letters: 3 vowel(s) and 5 consonant(s).
  • It uses 8 unique letters.
  • Estimated syllable count: 2.
  • Scrabble-style letter score: 15.

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What does Caulking mean?

To drive oakum into the seams of a ship's wooden deck or hull to make it watertight.

How many letters are in Caulking?

Caulking has 8 letters.

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