Cauk vs Caul - What's the difference?
cauk | caul |
(historical) A style of close-fitting circular cap worn by women in the sixteenth century and later, often made of linen.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , I.vii:
The thin membrane which covers the lower intestines; the omentum.
The amnion which encloses the foetus before birth, especially that part of it which sometimes shrouds a baby’s head at birth (traditionally considered to be good luck).
* 1971 , , Religion and the Decline of Magic , Folio Society (2012), page 182:
The surface of a press that makes contact with panel product, especially a removable plate or sheet.
(woodworking) A strip or block of wood used to distribute or direct clamping force.
(culinary) (Caul fat).
As nouns the difference between cauk and caul
is that cauk is an opaque, compact variety of barite, or heavy spar while caul is a style of close-fitting circular cap worn by women in the sixteenth century and later, often made of linen.caul
English
(wikipedia caul)Alternative forms
* callNoun
(en noun)- Ne spared they to strip her naked all. / Then when they had despoild her tire and call , / Such as she was, their eyes might her behold
- Even in the mid seventeenth century a country gentleman might regard his caul as a treasure to be preserved with great care, and bequeathed to his descendants.