caulking

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Naval stores originally got their name because as long as ships were wooden, pine tar and pitch were chiefly used in calking hulls and in tarring rope.

From Time Magazine Archive

He worked as short-order cook, sold gravestones and calking compound, worked in a filling station until 1 a.m.

From Time Magazine Archive

He mixed native moss with hot pitch for calking, used mountain ash for hardwood.

From Time Magazine Archive

In such a climate as that of Africa a canoe cracks, and for want of calking it often becomes so leaky as to require constant baling.

From The World and Its People: Book VII Views in Africa by Badlam, Anna B.

A bland oil is pressed from the seeds, which is used by artists, and at Para the fibrous bark of the tree is used for calking ships, as a substitute for oakum.

From Catalogue of Economic Plants in the Collection of the U. S. Department of Agriculture by Saunders, William