caulking-mallet

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• Mallet

  ·noun A small maul with a short handle, — used ·esp. for driving a tool, as a chisel or the like; al...

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• mallet

  A wooden hammer, of which there are several sorts. ♦ A caulking mallet is employed to drive the oa...

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• caulking-butt

  The opening between ends or joints of the planks when worked for caulking. ...

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• caulking-irons

  The peculiar chisels used for the purpose of caulking: they are the caulking-iron, the making-iron, ...

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• Mallet, originally Malloch, David

  (1705-1765) Poet and miscellaneous writer, ed. at Crieff parish school and the Univ. of Edin., wher...

  Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin

• serving-mallet

  The mallet, grooved on the under side, with which spun-yarn, or other small stuff, is wrapped tightl...

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• caulking of a ship

  Forcing a quantity of oakum, or old ropes untwisted and drawn asunder, into the seams of the planks,...

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