Calx vs Calk - What's the difference?
calx | calk |
(archaic) The substance which remains after a metal or mineral has been thoroughly burnt, seen as being the essential substance left after the expulsion of phlogiston.
(Now recognised as being) the oxide left after calcination of a metal.
calcium oxide
In the Eton College wall game, an area at the end of the field where a shy can be scored by lifting the ball against the wall with one's foot.
* 1915 April 1, in Gas Age , volume 35, page 328:
To make an indentation in the edge of a metal plate, as along a seam in a steam boiler or an iron ship, to force the edge of the upper plate hard against the lower and so fill the crevice.
To copy (a drawing) by rubbing the back of it with red or black chalk, and then passing a blunt stylus or needle over the lines, so as to leave a tracing on the paper or other thing against which it is laid or held.
As nouns the difference between calx and calk
is that calx is (archaic) the substance which remains after a metal or mineral has been thoroughly burnt, seen as being the essential substance left after the expulsion of phlogiston while calk is a pointed projection on a horseshoe to prevent it slipping.As a verb calk is
or calk can be to copy (a drawing) by rubbing the back of it with red or black chalk, and then passing a blunt stylus or needle over the lines, so as to leave a tracing on the paper or other thing against which it is laid or held.calx
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(wikipedia calx)Noun
(en-noun)calk
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Etymology 1
Verb
- When a joint was calked , the bell piece was then separated,