different between caulking vs waulking

English

Verb

caulking

1. present participle of caulk

Noun

caulking (usually uncountable, plural caulkings)

1. 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.

   • 2001, Middle Age: A Romance, Joyce Carol Oates (Fourth Estate, paperback edition, 17)

     Marina's bedroom was a small charming room with small charming windows of aged glass, dating to the mid-1800s, windowpanes badly in need of caulking, overlooking St. Agnes Roman Catholic Church with its heraldic spire floating on the night sky, and its ancient bumpy churchyard.

Synonyms

• caulk

Derived terms

• caulking iron

Translations

See also

• caulking on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Gluckian

English

Verb

waulking

1. present participle of waulk

Noun

waulking (plural waulkings)

1. The work by which cloth is waulked.
   • 2012, Gary West, Voicing Scotland: Culture and Tradition in a Modern Nation (page 54)

     But in the Outer Hebrides in particular, this form of work song still existed, attached to its original function, well into the 20th century, for waulkings continued to be practised as a communal task by women in their homes until the 1940s.