calking

The calking is completed by smearing the seams with melted pitch.

Even though he was no Sindbad, he could sense the wallow and see the age of the calking in the worn deck.

The calking was old, peeling.

It seemed to seep through the calking of the decks and no amount of wind during the trip had been able to blow it entirely away.

The nest would have to bake for a day in the sun before the padding was installed, and if it rained they would have to repeat the calking and wait again.

Mats of sheep wool and cowhair soaked in oil and tar, which the shipwrights used for the calking, were woven in around torn bales of fine fabrics, bags of dried grain and seeds, and oil and wine poured in rivulets to soak into these giant plugs.