caulker

American  

[kaw-ker] / ˈkɔ kər /

Or calker

noun

1. a person who caulks the seams of boats or the like.

2. a caulking tool or device.

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Etymology

Origin of caulker

First recorded in 1485–95; caulk + -er ¹

Example Sentences

Finding the sloop proved leaky I proceeded home to Catskill, where I procured a caulker and gave her some repairs, when we returned to Rondout and took on board another cargo of coal.

From Journal of Voyages Containing an Account of the Author's being Twice Captured by the English and Once by Gibbs the Pirate... by Dunham, Jacob

Hardy, the caulker, hastened first of all to mend the hull; pegs had to be changed, bits of planking to be replaced, seams to be caulked.

From An Antarctic Mystery by Hoey, Frances Cashel

So they make preparations to build the fortress, with provision of bread and wine for more than a year, with seeds for sowing, the ship’s boat, a caulker and carpenter, a gunner and cooper.

From The Northmen, Columbus and Cabot, 985-1503 by Olson, Julius E.

Off with your caulker, and take down the dogs to the boat.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 372, October 1846 by Various

The humorist of the house, the tall, raw-boned Billy Nash, caulker from the navy yard, was standing in the rear of the crowd.

From The American Claimant by Twain, Mark