kalfatern — meaning in English
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English meaning
- caulk noun A flexible waterproof filler squeezed into joints and gaps — around baths, sinks, window frames and skirting boards — to seal them against water and draughts.
Senses
kalfatern is used for these senses in English:
- caulk To apply caulking to joints, cracks, or a juncture of different materials.
caulk — full definition
- noun A flexible waterproof filler squeezed into joints and gaps — around baths, sinks, window frames and skirting boards — to seal them against water and draughts.
- verb To seal a joint or gap by filling it with such a compound.
- verb In traditional boatbuilding, to drive fibrous material such as oakum into the seams between a wooden hull's planks to make it watertight.