calafatare — meaning in English

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.
• tar noun A thick, dark, sticky substance made from coal or wood, used in roofing and road-making.

Senses

calafatare is used for these senses in English:

• caulk To apply caulking to joints, cracks, or a juncture of different materials.
• tar (transitive) To coat with tar.

caulk — full definition

1. 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.
2. verb To seal a joint or gap by filling it with such a compound.
3. verb In traditional boatbuilding, to drive fibrous material such as oakum into the seams between a wooden hull's planks to make it watertight.

tar — full definition

1. noun A thick, dark, sticky substance made from coal or wood, used in roofing and road-making.
2. verb To coat something with tar.
3. noun In computing, a program (and the archive file it creates) used to bundle multiple files together on Unix-based systems.

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