different between caulk vs oakum

English

Alternative forms

• calk

Etymology

From Old Northern French cauquer, from Late Latin calic?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k??k/
• (cot–caught merger, Canada) IPA^(key): /k?k/
• Rhymes: -??k
• Homophone: cock (some accents)
• Homophone: cork (some accents)
• IPA^(key): /kælk/ (some US)
• Rhymes: -ælk (some US)
• Homophones: calc, calk, calque (some US)

Noun

caulk (countable and uncountable, plural caulks)

1. Caulking.
2. A composition of vehicle and pigment used at ambient temperatures for filling/sealing joints or junctures, that remains elastic for an extended period of time after application.
3. Alternative form of calk (“pointed projection on a horseshoe”)

Translations

Verb

caulk (third-person singular simple present caulks, present participle caulking, simple past and past participle caulked)

1. (nautical) To drive oakum into the seams of a ship's wooden deck or hull to make it watertight.
2. To apply caulking to joints, cracks, or a juncture of different materials.
3. (slang) fuck

Translations

See also

• Caulking on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Lauck, Luka?

English

Etymology

From Middle English okome, from Old English ?cumba (“oakum”, literally “that which has been combed out, off-combings”), a derivative of ?cemban (“to comb out”), from Proto-Germanic *uz- + *kambijan? (“to comb”), from Proto-Indo-European *uds-, *?d- (“out”) + *?omb?-, *?emb?- (“tooth, nail; to pierce, gnaw through”). More at out, comb.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???k?m/

Noun

oakum (countable and uncountable, plural oakums)

1. A material, consisting of tarred fibres, used to caulk or pack joints in plumbing, masonry, and wooden shipbuilding.
2. The coarse portion separated from flax or hemp in hackling.
   • 1983, Peter Ackroyd, The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde:

     My eyesight began to fail, from the strain of picking oakum in my cell.

Synonyms

• (flax or hemp fibers separated in hackling): tow, hards

Translations

Anagrams

• Okuma