Dalk vs Calk - What's the difference?
dalk | calk |
A hollow or depression.
*1969 , Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor , Penguin 2011, p. 120:
*:On a sunny September morning, with the trees still green, but the asters and fleabanes already taking over in ditch and dalk , Van set out for Ladoga, N.A.
* 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 dalk and calk
is that dalk is a pin; brooch; clasp while calk is a pointed projection on a horseshoe to prevent it slipping.As a verb calk is
an alternative spelling of lang=en.dalk
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) dalke, dalk, from (etyl) .Etymology 2
Perhaps a diminutive of (dale), (dell).Alternative forms
*Noun
(en noun)calk
English
Etymology 1
Verb
- When a joint was calked , the bell piece was then separated,