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... China sailed the 5th, 6th, and 8th of May; and the Supply having been caulked sailed the 6th to Lord Howe Island, to endeavour to procure turtle, in hopes of checking the scurvy with which most of the people are affected, and near two hundred rendered incapable of doing any work. It is ...

— A Source Book Of Australian History • Compiled by Gwendolen H. Swinburne

... Everything is suggestive of boat-builders, of Robinson Crusoe work, of undisciplined hands, that have had to do with ineffectual tools. As you look at the walls, you see the house is built of timbers, squared and notched together, and caulked with moss ...

— Acadia - or, A Month with the Blue Noses • Frederic S. Cozzens

... Nile of Egypt. A great many villages are on the banks. There are boats of the same form as those of Tetuan and Tangiers, but much larger, built of planks, and have ribs like those of Barbary; instead of pitch or tar, they are caulked with a sort of red clay, or bole. The sail is of canvas of flax (not cotton) brought from Barbary, originally from Holland; it is square. They row like the Moors, going ...

— An Account of Timbuctoo and Housa Territories in the Interior of Africa • Abd Salam Shabeeny

Words linked to "Caulked" : stopped-up, uncaulked, weather-stripped, chinked