Caulking [noun]

Definition of Caulking:

the act of insulating

Synonyms of Caulking:

● Padding

● Lining

● Covering

● Packing

● Surrounding

● Furring

● Cording

● Defending

● Isolating

● Protecting


Opposite/Antonyms of Caulking:

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Sentence/Example of Caulking:

The boat is built entirely without caulking, with not a single butt in deck or hull.

If a short bend fitting is used, the matter of caulking is difficult.

This fitting is threaded on one end and has a socket on the other to allow for caulking.

I could see no connection between ant-heaps in a wood on shore and the caulking of a leaky schooner.

Her decks had been scrubbed until the caulking in the seams looked like lines of black paint on old ivory.

This mode of caulking is not very effectual, however, and the water is sure to come in sooner or later.

And these few days it was necessary to employ them in planking, carefully caulking the vessel, and launching her.

The men left their tarring and caulking under the drying-stages.

Mr. Jepson, will you kindly go forward and see how the men are coming on with that caulking?

Her father was busy there at an overturned boat–evidently caulking the seams.