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Calk vs Cask - What's the difference?

calk | cask |

As nouns the difference between calk and cask

is that calk is a pointed projection on a horseshoe to prevent it slipping while cask is a large barrel for the storage of liquid, especially of alcoholic drinks.

As verbs the difference between calk and cask

is that 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 while cask is to put into a cask.

calk

English

Etymology 1

Noun

(en noun)
  • A pointed projection on a horseshoe to prevent it slipping.

    • Verb

  • * 1915 April 1, in Gas Age , volume 35, page 328:
    • When a joint was calked , the bell piece was then separated,
  • 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.

    • Etymology 2

    Ultimately from (etyl) (lena) .

    Alternative forms

    * (l)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • 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.

    • Anagrams

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    cask

    English

    (wikipedia cask)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A large barrel for the storage of liquid, especially of alcoholic drinks.
  • (obsolete) A casket; a small box for jewels.
  • * 1593 , , III. ii. 409:
    • A jewel, locked into the woefullest cask / That ever did contain a thing of worth.

    Derived terms

    * cask beer

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To put into a cask.

    • Anagrams

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