casks
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The top and outer-heel calks cut at right angles, and the inner-heel calk is slender and blunt.
From Special Report on Diseases of the Horse by Michener, Charles B.
Aside from the peculiar shaped nail holes, the characteristic of the Hunish shoe consists in the changes of the calks for summer and winter shoeing, as well as in the sinking of the nail heads.
From Scientific American Supplement No. 819, September 12, 1891 by Various
The calks in these climbing-irons were about an inch and a quarter long; we wished they had been two inches.
From The Ascent of Denali (Mount McKinley) A Narrative of the First Complete Ascent of the Highest Peak in North America by Stuck, Hudson
Old Christian sprung the calks on the horn of the anvil, and returned the shoe.
From Dwellers in the Hills by Post, Melville Davisson
By keeping the heels as low as possible and shoeing without heel calks a more comfortable position is made possible.
From Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 by Lacroix, John Victor
