calafatear — 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.
• pay verb To give money in exchange for goods, services, or work.

Senses

calafatear is used for these senses in English:

• caulk To apply caulking to joints, cracks, or a juncture of different materials.
• pay (nautical, transitive) To cover (the bottom of a vessel, a seam, a spar, etc.) with tar or pitch, or a waterproof composition of tallow, resin, etc.; to smear.

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.

pay — full definition

1. verb To give money in exchange for goods, services, or work.
2. verb To be worthwhile or profitable.
3. noun Money received for work; wages or salary.

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